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...months for a passport, Stephen Ramasodi, the 16-year-old South African Negro to whom Kent School in Connecticut had offered a scholarship (TIME, July 25), learned that his hopes for getting away from the land of apartheid were dashed. Said the Ministry of the Interior in a blunt telegram to Stephen's headmaster: "Application for passport refused." The philosophy behind the refusal, according to one government official: "Frankly, Stephen Ramasodi would be taught things he could never use when he came back to South Africa. Why should we let the boy be frustrated by being led to hope...
...stock answer that the matter was under consideration. Huddleston wired to a member of Parliament, and was promised an "investigation." He appealed to the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, eventually got back from the Ministry the answer: "The matter is receiving attention." Finally he sent off one more telegram, and this time he received a letter from the Native Affairs Minister's private secretary accusing him of "crude methods." By last week it seemed obvious that the South African government wanted Stephen to stay at home. As the Minister's secretary had explained to Father Huddleston: "When such crude...
...father, brisk, self-assured Silliman Evans Jr., 30, will be come the new publisher of one of the South's liveliest and most powerful papers. His brother, Tennessean Reporter (and vice president) Amon Carter Evans. 21, named for the late publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TIME, July 4), will become a full-time executive. But much of the day-to-day responsibility for the Tennessean (circ. 112,947) will remain in the hands of Editor-Vice President Coleman Harwell, a meticulous, imaginative newsman who joined the paper 28 years ago as an unpaid...
...first U.S. transport plane in liberated Paris. After the war Silliman Jr. took over two smaller dailies then owned by the company; Both he and his brother are well aware that they must move fast to live up to their father, described in his early days as a Star-Telegram staffer as "the alltime, all-American diesel engine of Texas reporting...
Died. Amon G. Carter, 75, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; of a heart attack; in Fort Worth (see PRESS...