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South Africa's Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, 67, is known as the Old Sphinx of Premier Daniel Malan's cabinet. While Nationalist colleagues have cried the Black Peril and built up racial tension, reticent Havenga has secluded himself in his Pretoria office or at his Free State horse farm. There he has brooded over the country's shortage of dollar exchange. He visited the U.S. last year, tried in vain to drum up a loan, discovered that his government's oppression of its black majority was giving South Africa a bad name abroad...
...troubles of the Sphinx Club are over now that the new group has changed its name, President John D. Hopkins '48 announced yesterday...
...Sphinx Club will become Harvard's eleventh final club as soon as it changes its name...
...Friday the Faculty Committee on Student Activities checked the Sphinx's constitution and finances and voted that the group had fulfilled all requirements except for its name. Phoenix SK--the "S" stands for Sphinx--has claimed duplication of titles...
...club presidents will also meet soon to decide whether they will include "the Sphinx" in the inter-club agreement, which says that no final club can elect a member of another final club. Whatever they decide, the Sphinx will still be considered a final club in that it will accept no one from the other clubs...