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...diamond buyer for a London firm. He was short (5 ft. 4 in.), and diffident in manner. But he went quickly and quietly about the business of learning how to mine on the veld and deal with figures in the office. Ten years later, the citizens of Kimberley, home of five of the world's greatest diamond mines, elected him mayor...
...their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows with red and yellow ocher and pipe-clay white. It is sure to bring rain...
...Watkins Glen, N.Y., twisting for 101.2 miles around a rain-slicked course, Connecticut's Phil Walters in his Cunningham Special cut corners and roared wide open down the straightaways to average 83.3 m.p.h. and win his second International Grand Prix. In second place: Chicago's Jim Kimberley in a Ferrari...
...spoken to his wife about it first. The story concerns a wealthy Englishman named Henderson (David Farrar) who is squandering his substance in an attempt to develop some offshore diamond fields. But as every bride knows, there is no point whatsoever in developing new diamond fields. Those at Kimberley, South Africa, more than supply the world with engagement rings...
Combustion. The atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often...