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Last week, when the day came, a steady stream of well-armed cops, backed by armored cars, moved into the teeming native slums of South Africa's main cities. Army reinforcements stood ready at strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed...
...share in this affair Scott was sent to prison for three months. The attackers were not arrested. His bishop, torn between embarrassment and admiration, released him from his slum parish in Johannesburg, but left him license to preach...
British Overseas Airways Corp., which hopes to grab the lead in commercial aviation by flying the first jet transports on regular routes, announced that early next month it will start its 36-passenger Comet jetliner on weekly service to Johannesburg. With a cruising speed of 490 m.p..h., the Comet is scheduled to make the 6,724-mile run (five stops en route) in the flying time of 18 hours and 40 minutes, 12 hours less than current schedules...
With his new Comet service, Straight is banking on jets to make BOAC one of Britain's biggest dollar-earners. By June, the line will have five Comets on hand, be able to step up the Johannesburg flights to thrice weekly. When four more Comets are received, probably by year's end, BOAC hopes to launch Comet service between New York and Bermuda and New York and the Bahamas. Because of its rapid fuel consumption and limited range, BOAC can't use the Comet on the rich North Atlantic run. But it has ordered eleven...
More dangerous to Malan-and to every white man in South Africa was the threat of race war. In the teeming slums of Johannesburg, in crime-infested Durban, the slow wrath of the black man rose against apartheid (segregation). African leaders announced that they would "court arrest until the jails are full." A nationwide civil disobedience campaign by black, brown and half-whites was set for April 6, South Africa's national holiday. The organizers said they would stick to passive resistance, and would start no trouble. But in South Africa's present mood, they were inviting...