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...English-speaking citizens, the Nats rammed through legislation for a nationwide referendum on the question. But Parliament rang with the hot passions of the Boer War. Nationalist newspapers exhorted Afrikaners to contribute toward a $420,000 fund to carry on the republic campaign. But in Natal, the stronghold of the English-speaking population, thousands of antirepublicans flocked to Durban's electoral offices to check their registrations for the vote expected in October...
...hinterland, which had been a stronghold of the opposition until Nkrumah ruthlessly broke the power of the tribal chiefs two years ago, the Prime Minister's machine showed its efficiency. United Party vehicles were burned; party leaders were jailed on flimsy charges until the voting was over. Nkrumah's hard-fisted Transport Minister Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei stormed into one United Party headquarters and. when he saw the Prime Minister's picture hung upside down with pins stuck in its eyes, ordered that a beating be administered to the man responsible. In an Ashanti district toured by Edusei...
...Samneua province, long a stronghold of the Communist rebels, the National Front candidate rolled up 16,000 votes to 13 for his pro-Red opponent. Another National Front office seeker was given a total of 18,189 votes while his two rivals respectively got eleven and four. Of course, the National Front candidates had certain advantages: anti-government districts had been gerrymandered to make their election easier, and proCommunists had been allowed to run only at the last minute, and were limited to nine candidates...
...masses, autocratic Syngman Rhee, 85, has long ridden roughshod over anyone who dared oppose him politically. But in last month's election, his party's reliance on ballot stuffing and terrorism (TIME, March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged by Rhee's police for treason). Masan's voters flatly refused to believe that this time they had voted Liberal...
...surrounding seas and inland lakes of the U.S. are the world's stronghold of skindiving. Since World War II, U.S. swimmers have created a mass sport out of a pastime that once belonged to an adventuresome few. This week some 1,000,000 dedicated U.S. skindivers are getting ready for their biggest year. They are pro halfbacks, harried housewives, gawky teenagers. Detroit tycoons, retired schoolmarms sunning in Miami. For skindiving has the great virtue of letting each swimmer make his own terms with the deep. With no need to compete or excel, the skindiver can choose...