Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When ex-Missionary Garfield Todd was dumped two months ago as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (TIME, Feb. 24), the move was based on a hardheaded political calculation. Todd's own party, the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, decided that Todd's vigorous advocacy of racial "partnership" between blacks and whites in the Central Africa Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) had alienated white voters...
...educated moderate whom no one had tarred with the label of "too liberal." Since Whitehead was not a Member of Parliament and could serve only four months as Prime Minister without being elected an M.P., the party shopped around for a safe seat, picked Hillside, a suburb in Southern Rhodesia's second city of Bulawayo...
...Miles From Zomba. Central Africa's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland proclaims "racial partnership" as its official policy, but unofficially the color bar is so rigid that Indian and Pakistani diplomats are continually turned away from movie theaters, liquor stores, hotels and restaurants-even when they are guests of whites. The wife of an Indian official was not allowed to enter an elevator in a Salisbury department store, and later was refused admission to a "European" maternity home. A Pakistani trade commissioner who had been an R.A.F. squadron leader during World War II was invited to represent his country...
...like memory, Whitehead was hailed by the party's moderates as a sounder man, whose advocacy of racial partnership was hard-headedly based on economic necessity rather than evangelizing zeal. The Africans were not reassured. Declared George Nyandoro, secretary-general of the African National Congress in Southern Rhodesia: "Whitehead is a status quo man. A government led by Whitehead would only make concessions when concessions were forced upon it. The Africans will have to do the forcing...
...from the electrically charged ionosphere. Some fall to earth in unpredictable patterns that baffle scientists. Because of the ionosphere's quirks, the man with the world's widest range of TV viewing may well be an English electronics engineer named George F. Cole. His address: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, thousands of miles from Europe's transmitters...