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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capetown's anti-government Cape Argus sputtered indignantly over Klerksdorp's "incredible apostles of apartheid," derided their ban against "mixed traveling on man's last journey" as "departheid." Cried the Cape Argus:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Departheid | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Groundnuts on the Rocks | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

In Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Truth & Consequences. Fraser's charge that Newfoundlanders' legal rights end at the gates of the U.S. bases was perfectly true. That was the letter of the British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Rub | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Arriving in Manhattan to take over direction of the Metropolitan Opera next June, British Impresario Rudolf Bing told newsmen that the Met was "in excellent shape as far as vocal talent goes," but declined to be drawn out about its notoriously outdated scenery and production. Explained Bing: "It would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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