Word: velde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much at stake. Few communities in the world can match the sun-drenched affluence that Rhodesia's hardy settlers have achieved for themselves. Lions still command the distant escarpments, and elephants, baboons and rhinos forage in the valleys of rivers bulging with hippos. But on rolling high veld, brushed with elephant grass and flowering jacaranda trees, the whites have carved out a tidy empire of modern tobacco farms and cattle ranches that has brought modest prosperity to the land. Taxes are low and so are prices; and, for whites, wages are high enough to permit all but the most...
...penniless natives to go to work for the settlers to pay it. But the settlers worked beside them in the fields and gradually adopted a paternal feeling toward them. New settlers poured in, built themselves Victorian towns and sturdy houses, and planted mealies (corn) and tobacco on the veld. When more land was needed, the natives were moved off, until in 1928 the officials decided something had to be done to protect them. The result was the Land Apportionment Act, which set aside roughly half of the countryside as "native reserves"-but also prohibited the blacks from owning or even...
...would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead of its nearest com petition, the American Football League game of the week. But filming wildlife in the veld is dicey business at best. Expeditions have fanned out to Africa, India, South America, Australia, Alaska and Canada for this season's footage, and 12,000 ft. of film are required for every 1,000-ft. program: "An animal does not usually do the same thing twice," explains Meier...
...sold his successful Milwaukee insurance agency ten years ago to take his arthritic wife to the milder climate of Salisbury, also in Southern Rhodesia. They longed for a U.S.-style motel to stay in, so he built his own: a 28-room luxury motel on 100 acres of virgin veld nine miles outside the city...
...popes. It has financed wars and reparations treaties, changed the course of politics and bailed out armies and na tions. The Rothschilds strung railroads across the Continent, gained control of the Suez Canal for Britain, supported oilfields in the Caucasus and the Sahara, carved diamond mines in the African veld. Seldom unimaginative in the use of their money, they paid for the expedition that exhumed the mummy of Egypt's long-lost King Tutankhamen, have supported countless hungering artists and endowed many hospitals. To be a Rothschild has usually meant the possession not only of money...