Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real issue in South African politics: the pace and vigor with which the Union's 3,000,000 whites maintain their dominance over South Africa's 11,000,000 blacks and coloreds. It is eleven years since the Boer Afrikaner National Party rode into power on a platform of apartheid-all-out segregation. Since then, at the cost of twisting the nation's parliamentary and judicial traditions almost beyond recognition, and using a curious mixture of police-state methods and paternalism, the Nationalists have gone a long way toward fulfilling their segregation promises...
...position to form a coalition with disgruntled Nationalist moderates led by Finance Minister Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, who was thought to be fed up with Verwoerd's rigid extremism. The hopes were short-lived. At week's end Verwoerd and Dönges mounted the platform together to address a political rally in Worcester, Cape province. After both agreed that full apartheid is the only way for South Africa, Dönges said pointedly: "This is my answer to talk about coalition...
...missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...
...stop in and pick up their monthly checks-cashable immediately. In Chile, where contractors are resigned to waiting years for the government to pay, it was a sign of real progress. In the nine months since Paper Tycoon Jorge Alessandri, 63, moved in as President on a free-enterprise platform, the longtime degeneration of the national economy has been halted, even reversed in spots. Items on the ledger...
Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...