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...Johannesburg grew from a brawling mining camp to a vital metropolis, I. W.'s enterprises grew with it. I. W. put up $560 million worth of real estate subdivisions, introduced the chain store, cafeteria and American-style drugstore to South Africa. He gradually bought up most of South Africa's "tearoom bioscopes" (combination cafe-movie theaters), then added a catering service to supply them. Catering led him into the hotel and restaurant business. When he died in 1949, he was involved in nearly every sector of the economy...
...African National Congress, whose Nobel prizewinning leader, ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, is under house arrest in rural Natal. Spear's most spectacular coups to date have been the bombing of the Agricultural Minister's office in Pretoria and the blowing up of several giant power pylons around Johannesburg. Sabotage trials continue up and down the country. In the East Rand town of Benoni, a black prisoner disrupted the court by shouting "Shoot me now! Shoot me now!" The "No Trial" bill has a provision aimed directly at Spear's saboteurs: it provides up to 15 years imprisonment...
...Africa, and at the United Nations last fall its representative spoke against apartheid. but in that same U.N. debate it also opposed doing anything effective against apartheid, and the passage of the No-Trail Bill provoked no censure from the President, the State Department, or the U.S. Ambassador in Johannesburg...
While the earth turned on its daily round and Mariner II cruised toward Venus, JPL's three great radio dishes, at Johannesburg, South Africa, Woomera, Australia, and Goldstone, Calif., picked up Mariner's reports. They were received as a quavering, singsong radio signal, then translated by a computer into an endless series of letters printed on a broad band of paper. Out of the apparently meaningless melange of characters, Mariner men in JPL's control room deciphered their spacecraft's chatter...
Perhaps the best article (this reviewer too has fallen prey to academic equivocation) in the current issue is "South African Jewry in Crisis" by Richard Suzman. Suzman, a junior in Social Relations, is, we are told, a transfer student from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In an extremely lucid and understated style Suzman describes the plight of South African Jews caught up in the turbulent and often violent politics of that land...