Word: capetowners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hunt takes them through a savage South Atlantic storm that dismasts the sloop and defuses the kill; even Leviathan barely survives the battering. Elegant Ajaratu Akanke, by now both sleeping and sailing mate, is spirited from Capetown to her native Nigeria while Hardin lays a solo course for the Persian Gulf, where Leviathan will take on a million tons...
...National Party had needed a ballot to determine its new leader. All three declared candidates, representing rival segments within the party, had remained in the race until the end. As the 172-member party caucus proceeded through two rounds of secret balloting, tension mounted in the crowd gathered outside Capetown's white-columned senate building. Finally the doors opened: Defense Minister Pieter W. ("P.W.") Botha, 62, an uncompromising hardliner, had been chosen to succeed retiring Prime Minister John Vorster...
Player's ancestors were French Huguenots who emigrated to South Africa in the early 18th century. His great-grandmother participated in the Great Trek of the Boers north from Capetown in 1847. She married James Powers, whose intimate knowledge of South Africa's veldts and wildlife has been inherited by Player. In fact, Player's brother Ian was chief game conservator of the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves in Zululand...
...appeal of rugged Rotel travel lies chiefly in its remarkably low cost. A month-long southern Africa tour costs only $1,500, for example, including the charter flight, and takes passengers 6,000 miles from Rhodesia through Mozambique to Capetown and up the west coast to Angola. A 30-day tour of the U.S. and Canada costs $1,600, also including air fare from Germany (it is not available to Americans because, say Rotel officials, they do not want to compete with U.S. travel operators). A highlight, according to company brochures, is Las Vegas, with "the world's most...
...company owning a supertanker can makeas much as $4 million profit on one run from Kuwait to Europe. But theship costs up to $50,000 a day to run-including insurance. A typical voyage lasts about 75 days, only five of which are spent in the stormy waters below Capetown. It is easy to see, therefore, why, at the urging of the owners, IMCO, a special U.N. maritime agency, by 1966 agreed to allow overloading for the whole trip well beyond the safety levels previously established for navigation around the Cape...