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...long, the clouds had billowed above Johannesburg; in the late afternoon lightning split a sky that was the color of an overripe plum, and the city's jagged skyline vanished behind a curtain of steel-bright rain. Eighteen miles away, a tornado struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots...
...Rescue. Minutes after the storm, Johannesburg's Bronx-born mayor, 45-year-old Hymie Miller, sounded an appeal for help. Ambulances and double-decker city buses raced down the veld roads carrying white doctors and nurses; enough shoes, clothing and blankets poured in to supply twice the number of homeless. When Mayor Miller appealed for emergency blood donors, thousands of Johannesburgers streamed out of movie theaters and cocktail lounges to line up, some all night long, at the blood-bank centers...
...impress the government with the seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
...Johannesburg, where he is United Kingdom information officer, Bestselling Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, insured his new manuscript...
...area chosen for the development was the West Rand Consolidated gold mine on the Witwatersrand field near Johannesburg. After removal of the gold by the cyanide process, the tailings (i.e., waste) are treated by a secret chemical process to produce uranium oxide, which in its exportable form looks just like yellow mud. The project will extend to all other Rand mines, which will jointly share a giant uranium refinery...