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...Johannesburg, South Africa
...most evil, most cynical measures that have ever come before this honorable House." But the most eloquent attack on the bill was silent. It came from the rows of solemn women wearing black mourning sashes who last week kept a day and night vigil of protest outside Johannesburg's city hall and Cape Town's Parliament buildings...
...largely women of English stock whose husbands oppose the government-once again vowed to stand stern symbolic watch until Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government forced the sabotage bill through to the inevitable successful vote. In the autumn chill, Black Sash Chairman Jean Sinclair, a 54-year-old Johannesburg housewife, and her handful of matronly recruits were swathed in overcoats as they lit their symbolic torch of freedom and posted placards reading "Reject the Sabotage Bill." Promptly, young pro-Nationalist hooligans gathered to hurl eggs, water bombs, stones. Once a crowd of 400 rushed the Black Sash ranks...
After five days of violence, Mrs. Sinclair bowed to a plea from the Johannesburg city council that at least the night vigils be stopped. That evening, inside the city hall, Composer Igor Stravinsky was conducting the South African Broadcasting Corp.'s symphony orchestra in the first of five concerts for whites only (a sixth was reserved for blacks). Stravinsky had asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many...
...Santa Fe Opera, the Hamburg Staatsoper and the New York City Ballet, the dancers and singers were preparing gala evenings in his honor. In Mexico City and Melbourne. Johannesburg. Moscow and Tel Aviv, symphony orchestras were tuning up for concerts to celebrate his birthday. Recordings of the old man's music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky...