Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa's whites, watching the trains go by, know well the implications of what the mine trains carry-the white man's fancy goods earned by the black man's new skills. No longer is there a question of where the African is going. The questions now are: Who can hold back the tide? And, what place will there be for the white...
...Only Criterion . . ." Even at his most extreme, the white man is fighting only a delaying action, and any idea that the European in Africa does not know this does him an injustice. Everywhere north of the Limpopo the whites are working for some kind of multiracial solution. In the lakeside town of Bukavu in the Belgian Congo, angry colons recently pelted a Belgian colonial minister with tomatoes because they thought him too liberal. At the same time, a prosperous white merchant in Elisabethville was explaining to a visitor: "We do not want apartheid [segregation]. We wish to share power with...
Variations on a Theme. But the whites know that their time of unquestioned domination will soon be over. South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself-the ruthlessly logical racist who looks so much like a kindly Kris Kringle -has lately added a "positive" side to apartheid. "In the year 2000," he once explained in his high professorial voice, "we should expect the Bantu population to number 19 million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white...
...first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with respect to our Presidents, public men and military leaders...
...Call me a come-in fighter, a counterpuncher, an aggressive boxer. Call me anything you want," said Featherweight Champion Davey Moore, 25. "But if you really want to know what I am, I'm a street fighter, man, the best you ever...