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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.


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BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ...
BARNEY OLIVER In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic t...
BARNEY OLIVER Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
BARNEY OLIVER No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER