Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they made plans to emigrate to England last week, Rosseinsky and his pretty wife Angela, a lecturer in the classics, were joining a veritable trek of educators, scientists, doctors-professional men of all varieties-fleeing South Africa. Understandably, the South African government is not hastening to publish relevant statistics, but there is an officially admitted need for 4,000 additional doctors by 1965; balancing off 1960's new crop of physicians against the doctors who emigrated, the year's net gain was a mere 151. Vacated faculty jobs at South African universities go begging (19 at important Natal...
Leached out of a novel custom-written for the studio by Stuart Cloete, the story begins in 1837, when small parties of hardy Boers were setting out on the great trek from Cape Colony to the Transvaal, a thousand miles to the north. The hero (Stuart Whitman), an N.C.O. in the British cavalry and an s.o.b. in everybody's book, deserts with two buddies (Ken Scott, Rafer Johnson) and hitches a ride to the interior with a wagon train of Dutch Voortrekkers...
...Europe, too, termites are marching inexorably north. French termites have moved from Bordeaux to Paris. After a long trek up the Italian boot, other termites are now dining on Venice's peppermint-striped gondola hitching posts...
When farm-bred Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin departed Moscow shortly after his successful orbit for a triumphal trek through Czechoslovakia, a West German wire service marveled: "It's Gagarin's first trip abroad." By last week, three months and several countries later, the newly cosmopolitan cosmonaut had polished his terrestrial technique, suavely met his Finnish public in a preview of this week's speechifying appearance at the Soviet Trade Fair in London...
...austere and pious Queen Fabiola, 32. The white gown and veil she wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary of State-also became clear the very next day: the Pope personally confirmed rumors that...