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...Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime Minister Smuts for pro-Hitler sympathies. Malan's government promptly canceled the ban as well as the Smuts-sponsored program for training Negro labor...
...future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule by extremists, a bloody suppression of black revolt, wholesale escape of blacks and emigration of British, founding of the "Ox-Wagon Republic," eventual war between the civilized world and South Africa, which would be left to devastation and barbarism...
Stassen, charging back into the state which he once thought was sewed up, had traveled some 2,465 miles in nine days. He spoke in a drenching rain at Coos Bay, addressed a crowd huddled under umbrellas at Newport, rode a white horse in Ontario, drank "blue ox milk" to please Roseburg's Paul Bunyan Club. Despite his victories over Dewey in Wisconsin and Nebraska, Stassen could not afford a defeat. But neither could Dewey. It was a knock-down fight which had astonished nobody so much as the open-mouthed voters of Oregon...
Flanked by fellow-diggers Bruce Bowe and Hugh Hencken. Carlton S. Coon, professor of Anthropology, holds up a bone from an ox that roamed the prairies 150,000 years ago. The three are members of the first post-war expedition of the American School of Prehistoric Research, just returned from Tangler...
...Soup. In Naboomspruit, Transvaal, Solomon Macheke got three months at hard labor (and five strokes of the lash) for biting the tail off a fractious ox...