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...Ahead." The Cape Town drama began three months ago, when Louis Washkansky, a wholesale grocer, was admitted to suburban Groote Schuur Hospital with progressive heart failure. Because of two heart attacks, one seven years ago and the other two years ago, the burly patient's heart muscle was not getting enough blood through clogged and closed coronary arteries. He also had diabetes, for which he had been getting insulin. His liver was enlarged. Surgeon Barnard's cardiologist colleagues gave "Washy" (as he was known to World War II buddies in North Africa and Italy) only a few months...
Some of the younger Nationalists and their wives thought the occasion called for a gesture of thanks to their leader. They organized a victory march on Groote Schuur (Great Barn), the vast Dutch Colonial pile, once the mansion of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes, that is now the Cape Town residence of the Prime Minister. Around 9 of the summer's evening, a caravan of 130 cars, filled with 156 Nationalist parliamentarians and wives, drove slowly up to the great house whose grounds overlook two oceans. "We have come to sing," announced a spokesman. Mrs. Strydom invited the crowd inside...
...causes and effects of illness is to reduce it to the monotonous purr of humanity and kill it." Perhaps the best evidence of what seems to be ailing 20th century poetry was furnished by a delegate from The Netherlands who quoted a fellow poet and countryman, Koos Schuur...
...Cape Town's Table Mountain, that looks toward the point where the royal blue waters of the Indian Ocean merge into the Atlantic, a huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...