Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laurence Gandar, editor of the Rand Daily Mail [July 23], is the most courageous man in South Africa. His enemies feel that he does South Africa harm. How wrong they are! He fights for the rights of all: white, black, Afrikaner and Englishman. He is the only bright ray of hope coming through the dark cloud that hangs over our country...
During the debate on his amendment, Dirksen orated before a packed and entranced gallery. He warned that the time could come "when the only people interested in state boundaries will be Rand McNally." He cried out that the Prohibition Amendment had disastrously deprived states of freedom to make their own laws and that "in 1932 my party was overwhelmingly voted out of office, and not the least of the issues were bread and booze." He insisted that "the whole burden of my argument has been: go back to the people." He intimated that the Supreme Court had taken on powers...
...sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...
Pogrund's exposé was based on the experience of South African Art Teacher Robert Harold Strachan, 39, who had served a three-year sentence for political conspiracy, and was so sickened by what he saw that he went to the Rand Daily Mail to tell all. Editor Laurence Gandar (TIME, Jan. 8), checked carefully, put Pogrund to work, then published Strachan's appalling story of filth and disease, of beatings and other tortures suffered mainly by blacks in South Africa's prisons...
...soon as the first two installments of the three-part series appeared, the police put Strachan under house arrest, then dropped in on the Rand Daily Mail and confiscated the typescripts of the series. The final installment had already been set, and the paper courageously went ahead and printed it. When no other newspaper would touch the story, the Rand Daily Mail blandly noted: "There is no onus on any person who has copies of the three issues to dispose of them...