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...province. His father was a sheep farmer. Vorster attended the University of Stellenbosch, a bastion of Afrikaner nationalism, on a scholarship. He studied psychology and law and joined the junior wing of the National Party. In the early years of World War II he helped found the Flaming Ox-Wagon, a militantly anti-British, pro-German nationalist movement. Vorster was arrested by the pro-British government in 1942 and spent 14 months in an internment camp...
...Combat Zone. Prostitutes live in a very delicate coexistence with the law: no prostitute has formally charged any policeman with rape or blackmail even though, according to the report, such arts occur. Weeks says, "The police down the Zone get away clear. They take you in the paddy wagon and say, "If you blow me, I'll let you go," Doyle replies to these accusations by saying he will gladly check into any charges against the force...
Twenty-five University of Nebraska students said they raised traveling money through sweepstakes and donations. To reach Cambridge, the team drove for 40 hours, non-stop, in a van, a station wagon, and a truck, the students said...
...morning last week, Graziella Ortiz-Patińo 5, was sitting in the back seat of a station wagon, waiting the family chauffeur to drive her to kindergarten. As he strolled out of the servants' quarters at the villa near Geneva, two men emerged from the shrubbery and pistol-whipped him down. They forced the child into a waiting car and sped off toward the French border, two miles away...
DIED. Frederick Merk, 90, onetime head of the Harvard history department and author of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. From 1923 until his retirement in 1957, he taught a famous course-known to generations of students as "Wagon Wheels" or "Cowboys and Indians"-that traced the settlement of the American West...