Word: velde
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...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...
...Isidore William Schlesinger arrived in Cape Town in 1896, South Africa was in the throes of the gold rush. A salesman from Manhattan's Lower East Side, I. W. preferred to seek his fortune above the ground. Soon the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) drummer was coursing the veld in horse and buggy, selling life insurance to gold miners and Swazi chiefs for the U.S.'s Equitable Life Assurance-and earning a record $30,000 a year in commissions. He set up his own insurance company, then turned to real estate...
...incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted...