Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been that his thirst for education took him to England six years ago, Patrick Matimba, 26, might have had quite an ordinary life as just one more Negro making out as best he could under the segregation laws of his native Southern Rhodesia. But. at an interracial dance near London, Patrick met and fell in love with a sturdy young blonde housemaid from Holland. A short time later the two married. When, after returning home alone, Patrick sent for his wife and baby daughter to join him, he became the center of the thorniest and most widely publicized racial dispute...
...Patrick Matimba, the whole episode was proof that in multiracial Southern Rhodesia there is "very little hope that mutual tolerance and understanding will ever prevail. When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when...
Icing the Icing. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the African Daily News reported "a colorful wedding held in the Msana Reserve [that] ended with the bride delivering a baby boy soon after the cutting of the ceremonial cake...
...Broom. Over the years he kept close tabs on the leaders and chiefs of his native land (where the blacks outnumber whites nearly 400 to 1). He constantly denounced the British plan for forming a federation of Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias (where there are more white settlers), insisted that the Colonial Office continue to rule Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland until the two countries were ready for independence. When the federation went through, Banda sold his practice, moved to the Gold Coast, to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti. There he became a friend of Kwame Nkrumah...
...offshoots of the world economic boom is an international boom in real estate. From Rhodesia to Rochester, land shoppers are clamoring for attractive parcels of property. Only ten years ago Switzerland was the only European country in which a foreign broker could easily do business in real estate; today, firmer currencies have made the task much easier -and tremendously profitable. The firm that stands to benefit most by the boom is Manhattan's Previews, Inc., the world's only international clearinghouse for real estate, and an experienced dealer in both the exotic and the practical...