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Today, as more and more news occurs in Africa. TIME has geared its coverage to keep pace with the events there. I recently asked our Johannesburg bureau chief, Alexander Campbell (TIME, June 9, 1952), to describe this pace. With the help of nine part-time correspondents, his regular beat includes everything south of the Sahara-a territory roughly 2½ times the size of the United States...
Campbell's answer to my query began: "I'm typing this while flying on a plane from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
...cleft stick carried by a native runner and then sit back and wait six months for the answer. Now, things are slightly better, but not much. In the Union of South Africa, the most advanced country on the 'Dark Continent.' a telephone conversation even between Capetown and Johannesburg is an ordeal of waiting and cajolery. To phone Nairobi from Johannesburg, you must 1) book the call 24 hours in advance, 2) call via London." Even the telegraph is uncertain. "Once in Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, on a Friday afternoon, I filed a TIME story at the local cable station...
Arms & the Man. In Johannesburg, South Africa, when seven armed holdup men entered his store, Grocer James Christopher started bombarding the bandits with two-pound cans of lemon drops, routed them after scoring six direct hits...
Deadly Weapon. In Johannesburg, South Africa, police hunted the four men who took $26 from a gas station cash register while holding the attendant at bay with a live lobster...