Word: springboks
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...African "summit conference" in Addis Ababa, South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...
...Zealand holds the rugby crown, symbol of supremacy in the rugger playing world. Perennial challenger for the title is the Union of South Africa's all-white Springbok team. The Springboks journeyed to New Zealand in 1956, cheerfully played-and were soundly beaten-by the All-Blacks, as New Zealand's national team composed of both whites and Maoris is ironically called. This year the All-Blacks are due to play the Springboks in South Africa. When New Zealand's Rugby Union announced that, to spare Maori players embarrassment from apartheid policies, only white members...
...descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together with known trade-union leaders, were arrested. Investigation showed that the calling of the strike was opposed by Communist and union leaders, who were overruled by rank...
...great estate of the de Beers diamond tycoons near Kimberley, Lord Hyde, 29, son & heir of the Governor General of South Africa, was out with a party of friends shooting springbok. Rushing forward into the bush he tripped over an anthill, dropped his gun, shot himself dead...
...somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from its winter headquarters at Peru. Ind., at the height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like Illinois Sell Telephone. Western Union, Western Electric, hired whole floors in Loop (downtown) hotels to house their snow-bound workers. Motoring to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia with five prisoners, two deputy sheriffs were engulfed by drifts, had to borrow money from...