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Africa. "The American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient...
...past two years alone, two new nations have been born and twelve territories have become self-governing. Four more are scheduled to get independence by the end of 1960. Having logged more than 110,000 miles of travel crisscrossing Africa in these two years, TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast completed a tour of duty and cabled these impressions of a restless continent...
...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
...news had to be gathered at airport ceremonies or palace interviews. Correspondent Prendergast, for example, was all too aware of the spreading American craze for hula hoops by discovering one whirling about in Johannesburg, encircling his own nine-year-old daughter...
...Formosa last September, Photographer Robert Crandall embarked on one of his most exacting assignments: photographing some of the great store of Chinese art masterpieces that have been hidden from the world for more than two decades. He had flown to Formosa after TIME Correspondents John Osborne and Curtis Prendergast arranged with Nationalist Chinese authorities to unpack their choicest works, as selected by art experts Dr. Wang Shih-chieh...