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...Nationalists have turned the South African Broadcasting Corp. into a docile propaganda tool. Up to now, Verwoerd has feared to risk unfavorable world opinion by openly muzzling the recalcitrant English press. But his flanking movements have had their effect. South Africa's free press must follow a zigzag obstacle course past ten punitive national statutes. The government's Special Branch, which serves as censor in everything but name, combs every issue of every paper for statutory violations. A government commission was appointed in 1950 with the avowed purpose of examining the country's newspapers-but its members...
...mistakes." The S-Man always has inside stories. He always knows "who is sleeping with whom. Inside every large onion, innumerable smaller and inner onions are waiting to be revealed. You are the prophet of the inner onion." The best road to the top "is often a zigzag-from one competitor to another and back again. Never be ashamed of rejoining your old firm if the salary is right: what a pleasure it is to be among old friends again...
...Zigzag Intellectual. Following in Martin's wake may take some doing. A brilliant but zigzag intellectual with the tonsure and the look of a nonconformist cleric (his father was just that), Martin came to the Statesman determined to kindle a blaze: "I thought I was the sort of editor who would destroy the paper within six months but would make my message clear." He succeeded in doing neither...
...neither is she. It is when the local Episcopal minister shows up to make Rabbit see the moral wrong of his desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin to tangle up. The minister is a weakling himself, but he is persistent. What follows is the revolting zigzag course of a weak, sensual, selfish and confused moral bankrupt. He returns to his wife; he walks out again; a tragic incident sends him back to her once more-and again he runs out. Can he go back to Ruth, pregnant and contemptuous of his weakness? When he goes...
...speeding protons from the sun. The radiation was about 1,000 times as intense as the cosmic rays that normally come from space. Unlike the Van Allen radiation, which is made of solar protons that have been trapped by the earth's magnetic field and forced to zigzag around the earth, the balloon-detected particles came directly from the sun, crashing into the earth's atmosphere with energies between no million and 120 million electron-volts...