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WIMBLEDON ON THE UPSWING SAMPRAS AT CENTER STAGE, AND PLENTY OF SUBPLOTS WILL KEEP THINGS LIVELY.(Sports)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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June 20, 1999
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Byline: Steven Wine Associated Press
WIMBLEDON, England -- Weather aside, the outlook at Wimbledon is unusually bright.
Sure, there's always the threat of rain. And Wimbledon remains susceptible to criticism that lawn tennis is duller than watching grass courts grow, especially on the men's side.
But this year the tournament coincides with a sudden upswing in the sport's popularity, the result of two dramatic, emotional finals at the French Open earlier this month.
Wimbledon opens Monday with the focus on five-time champion Pete Sampras, ...
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SOUTH AFRICA CASTS CRITICAL EYE ON THE SYMBOLS OF APARTHEID.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...Society in Pretoria. "After Verwoerd, it's going to be (former...Boshoff, a son-in-law of Verwoerd and leader of the Afrikaner Volkswag...government. That the name of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd would become the first target...
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In Whitest Africa: THE AFRIKANER HOMELAND OF ORANIA
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...foot statue of Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. Acknowledged by all but the...villain in South African history, Verwoerd is known as the architect of...in Jim Crow America, it was Verwoerd who, with the mad zeal of the...
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EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: SCHOOLS ARE FALLING ON HARD TIMES
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...engraved names include that of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd better known as the architect...in neighbouring South Africa. Verwoerd's family lived in what was...only of a different colour to Verwoerd but have little time to contemplate...
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Who's sorry now?
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...public history focuses on Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, chief architect of apartheid...is it the same one where Dr. Verwoerd was murdered with a knife in...the fanatically zealous Dr. Verwoerd also figures in American David...
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Vain but cunning bully who lived beyond the law; PW Botha, 'South Africa's Pinochet', has passed on but his ghost haunts the Outeniqua mountains and his legacy is a blight on our political landscape.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; ...signed the 1955 Freedom Charter. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, the acknowledged architect...after the Sharpeville massacre, Verwoerd, in a denouement worthy of Shakespeare...us - in the year of my birth. Verwoerd was followed by the descent into...
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Holland Blame everything bad on immigrants
Magazine article from: New African
; ...Culemborg. Another Dutchman worth remembering is Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. He was the primary architect of apartheid (derived...word "apart hood1} and its greatest theoretician. Verwoerd was a native Dutch before he migrated to South Africa...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Suleyman I (the Magnificent; the "Lawgiver"), Sultan of Turkey, 1566; Arthur Rackham, illustrator, 1939; Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African prime minister, assassinated 1966. On this day: the Great Fire of London came to an end...
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 "The Mercury (South Africa)")
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Waxworks: Go figure.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa)
; ...Nelson Mandela, Hugh Masekela, Gary Player, Olive Schreiner, Jan Smuts, Charlize Theron, Desmond Tutu and Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. I suppose we could put Madam and Eve in there, too, with their figures at the museum entrance. The trouble...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1930; Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, writer and politician, 1932; Arthur Rackham, illustrator, 1939; Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African prime minister, assassinated 1966; Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, 1985. On this day...
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1930; Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, author and politician, 1932; Arthur Rackham, illustrator, 1939; Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African prime minister, assassinated 1966; Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, 1985. On this day...
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