Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three bullets from a pistol aimed by a wealthy White framer-businessman ended all that. David Pratt's attempt on Verwoerd's life consolidated Nationalist Afrikanerdom because Verwoerd became a martyr, prepared to sacrifice his life in his crusade for apartheid and White rule...
...Nationalists are frankly jittery about the outcome of next month's referendum, when Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd will ask the voters to approve his plan to make South Africa a republic and, tacitly, to approve his apartheid policies. In Pretoria's Supreme Court last week, Farmer David Pratt went on trial for firing two shots into Verwoerd's head last April. Chief business of the court was to hear psychiatric evidence that Pratt was mentally unbalanced. Before being led away for examination by mental specialists, Pratt leaped to his feet to make a statement: "I felt...
...called an end to the state of emergency under which South Africans have lived since Sharpeville, released thousands of political prisoners who have been held without charge. To ensure plenty of scary headlines on the eve of the referendum, Sept. 12 was set for the trial of David Pratt, the English-born farmer who shot but only lightly wounded Verwoerd in April. In the back country, Nationalist campaigners are warning voters that there will be ways to tell who voted against the republic. And Verwoerd himself has bluntly stated that he intends to make South Africa a republic no matter...
Told to Talk. Despite such discrepancies, there was no doubt that the Russians had bagged the U2. They had Powers, and they displayed some convincing wreckage. The long, gliderlike wings were remarkably intact. The Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engine was easily identifiable, as were the U.S. manufacturers' labels on cameras and electronic gear. Along with the varied supply of foreign money that Khrushchev had reported in the captured pilot's possession, the Soviets also laid out a pistol, a tube of morphine, a flashlight, a half-pack of Kent cigarettes, a Social Security card...
...high-performance sailplane. They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost surely be coaxed to altitudes close...