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47%7 The surname of a character in 'Cry the Beloved Country' by Alan Paton
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• American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)

35%5 S. African novelist
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• South African writer (1903-1988)

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