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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day some 1,000 blacks rushed the Langa police station. The police again opened fire and killed at least two more people. Other demonstrators set up roadblocks and stoned trains and buses to prevent workers from going to their jobs in Cape Town. There, as in Johannesburg's Soweto, the tactic failed to disrupt business and industry seriously, but managed to intimidate many black workers. As one Johannesburg worker told Lee Griggs, TIME'S Africa bureau chief: "They scare me. This morning some young ones tried to make me stay in Soweto...
...from Hollywood ... The Melvin Dummar Story! Melvin Dummar? Isn't he that Utah gas station owner who says he gave Howard Hughes a ride one day, and then turned up as a beneficiary in one of the late industrialist's alleged wills? The same. Producer Art Linson has signed up Oscar-Winning Scriptwriter Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and says he hopes to start filming Dummar's life story later this year. "They're already three weeks behind schedule," grumbles Melvin, who had volunteered to play himself on the screen. Instead...
Soon, however, violence broke out elsewhere. Black youths pelted passing trains with stones. Some tried to prevent the 230,000 blacks from Soweto who work in Johannesburg from going to their jobs. A key railroad switching station was sabotaged to prevent the approximately 100 daily commuter trains from leaving Soweto for the city. As a result, tens of thousands of blacks failed to show up at their jobs in Johannesburg. By week's end only a handful of people had been killed in the new disturbances, but mobs of adults as well as youths were still roaming through...
...Inhibitions. Often Rassias himself teaches beginners their first daily class, which consists of about 25 students. They are immediately taught to engage in very short conversations about events such as going to a train station. The professor then moves rapidly around the class, bending down close to one student, whirling and pointing to another as he fires questions. Or, after a student memorizes a Rassias-written "microlog," a one-minute monologue that explains how to do something, like make a crêpe, the professor quickly asks: "What are the ingredients? How long does it cook...
Died. Lord Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked...