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...They testified to knowing nothing about the fate of fellow prisoners who had been captured in the same action. Yet there was a press report from Washington quoting one of the prisoners-a Special Forces sergeant now in Germany-as saying that Smith had helped him escape from a cave in which they were both imprisoned, heroically sacrificing his own chance for freedom. And the parents of the two men reported that up to the moment of their release their letters had never reflected strong antiwar views...
...questions were answered satisfyingly in William Mulvihill's novel. Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman, who is left...
...subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...William R. Halliday, 49, is a chest surgeon by profession; by avocation he is a spelunker in the caves of the limestone belt that stretches from Ohio and Kentucky to New Mexico. "Curiosity takes you underground in the first place," he says. "And once there, you're hooked. You discover one thing, and that's never enough; you're always pushing back, and then back beyond that. Everything underground seems to ask a question. I've seen this challenge change a motorcycle punk in Los Angeles into a Ph.D." A cave's size or depth...
George E. Cave '63, one of the two Harvard students there, was told by one man that "they ought to put you inside the gate and ship you and the whole damn bunch overseas." Josef Mlot-Mroz, a Polish refugee who has attended nearly all Boston area demonstrations, shouted "Down with Communist dupes and stooges!" and set fire to two simulated Russian flags...