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...tall, white-haired Prime Minister beamed as he walked back to his box after inspecting the prize cattle at the annual Rand Show in Johannesburg's Milner Park. It was a warm, sunny Saturday, and Hendrik Verwoerd's speech had been particularly suitable for the 50th anniversary of South African nationhood. "We shall not be killed!" he shouted to the thousands of whites in the grandstand. "We shall fight for our existence, and we shall survive." He took his seat beside his wife Betsie, not noticing David Pratt, a wispy, 54-year-old Transvaal farmer in green tweeds...
...like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan, it went. After 22 years at 9 Rockefeller Plaza, TIME'S editorial apparatus-from green pencils to Teletypesetting machines-moved a block west to the new 48-story TIME and LIFE Building at 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas...
...does, standard procedure is to look for a cue from a buxom, 65-year-old mezzo-soprano named Marguerite Belleri. Says she: "If I cry, they cry. If I smile or attack, they do it, too." Last week, the company's senior chorister was honored for her 50th year with...
...part of her 50th-anniversary celebration last week, Chorister Belleri got a complete set of Metropolitan Opera Annals and the privilege of taking Saturday night off (she promptly took a second-row seat for La Forza del Destino). At a party, General Manager Bing, who has just finished his first decade at the Met, gave her the highest accolade. "Ten years is almost too much for me," sighed he. "How did you ever stand...
...place between Jan.15 and Feb. 15 in an area of the Pacific 280 miles long by 160 miles wide (see map), 500 miles south of the U.S.'s Johnston Island, 1,300 miles east of the U.S. trust-territory Marshall Islands, 1,000 miles southwest of the new 50th state of Hawaii. Radio Moscow warned the world's shipping to keep out of that part of the Pacific or risk getting hit by the Red rockets' "penultimate stage...