Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source...
After three days, the guns and fire hoses of 500 policemen finally brought peace to Durban. But just to make sure, the Union's Minister of Justice sent around three armored cars. In Cape Town, an M.P. rose to warn the government of South Africa about the dangers of tolerating such "rabbit warrens" as Cato Manor, where "23,000 Africans live under the most sordid conditions...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...feel it only highly irrelevant that he may not have secured clearance by the FBI." ¶The University of California's Berkeley Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 prize -synthesis of new elements): "I am concerned about the virtual absence of easy, direct communication with scientists of the Soviet Union . . . Poland, Czechoslovakia and China. If we do not get a proper perspective on the development of science in countries such as China, we shall not be able to act rationally, and will surely suffer a rude awakening in the not too distant future." ¶Bell Labs' Walter H. Brattain...
Looking toward the 1960 Olympic Games, the U.S. mustered its best track stars at the National Amateur Athletic Union meet in Boulder, Colo., and found them good. Most impressive was the depth of U.S. track prowess: when a champion faltered, there were eager contenders ready and able to take his place. Items...