Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National League--Blacks (4-0-0); Intellects (4-0-0); Ball Breakers (4-2-0); New E-2 (3-1-0); Reef Trust (2-2-1); K.A. Generals (2-2-1); New F-1 (2-3-0) Dead Beats...
Last week, all Dutch Reformed Churches held special prayers for South Africa's 18,000 policemen, whose main job is to keep kaffirs good kaffirs. No policemen needed the prayers more than the 4,000 who patrol the Gold Reef. Said the Rand Daily Mail: "As he padlocks his front door tonight, every Reef householder will echo the prayers-and then make sure his revolver is handy at his bedside...
...past two years). Part of the increase is due to the Malan government having reclassified as "serious" crime such offenses as assaulting the police and "promoting race hostility." Every month 14,000 Negroes are arrested under the pass laws and 15,500 under the liquor laws. On the Gold Reef, there are three murders every two days. Johannesburg, with a total population of 850,000, has twice the number of crimes committed in Greater London with a total population of more than...
...artiness; Adams shoots straight, as these pictures of Utah's Capitol Reef and Yosemite's Vernal Fall show. Painting, he thinks, has a bad influence on photographers, leading them to romanticize what they see. Adams shuns trick effects. Objectivity, reinforced by every technical resource of the medium, is what he strives for. Adams has great reverence for the world he photographs, and the combination of realism and reverence is the measure of the man and of his work...
...101st day of the 4,300-mile voyage, the Kon-Tiki piled up on a reef just off a lovely island in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Three or four days before that, friendly natives had paddled out to visit the raft. Where, they asked knowingly in sign language, was the engine? When they realized there was none, their faces expressed pure 20th Century astonishment...