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...Communist days, Canton was China's historic capital of insurrection. Secret societies flourished in the teeming tearooms of the wealthy southern metropolis, and assassination was a familiar way of death. It was in Canton that the Opium War began. It was there that Sun Yat-sen's revolution broke...
...fall afternoon in 1955, eight-year-old Janice May was found raped and beaten beside the railroad tracks near Canton, Ill. She died an hour later. Subsequently, Canton Cab Driver Lloyd E. Miller Jr., 28, was sentenced to death for the crime. Yet Janice's murder remains unsolved. Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed Miller's conviction because the prosecution had used false evidence with an almost incredible disregard for U.S. standards of fair trial...
That was not the only revelation. At the 1963 hearing, the prosecution lost its star witness, Betty Baldwin, the Canton passenger who had testified that Miller blurted a confession while she was riding in his cab. Now she completely recanted her story. Then there was Miller's landlady: she had refused to aid his lawyers in 1956 after the prosecution told her that she had a constitutional right to silence. Now she testified that Miller was asleep in his room at the time of the crime...
...against Russia-a trick as old as tyranny. Within China, though the swirl of disorder seemed to abate temporarily, opposing factions busily jockeyed about to win both minds and territory. Mao's increasing dependence on military force illustrated his conviction that "rifles make the regime." Army units in Canton warned that unless anti-Mao forces were defeated, "our state may change color...
...Harvard Alpine ski team won both slalom events, but placed third overall in the St. Lawrence University Winter Carnival this weekend in Canton, N.Y. A poor showing in cross-country and jumping pulled the squad down...