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...custody. "I was put in a bedroom with 16 other men," he said, "screaming and urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories. . . ." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes . . . it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night . . . ." He left after a week...
...night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm in the long Ontario winters...
...closed down for lack of business, people get their supplies at Belleville, five miles down the road. The population, according to Bobby's sister Judy, 20, is "about 1,000, if you count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue billboard that proudly proclaims: POINT ANNE, BIRTHPLACE OF BOBBY HULL, WORLD'S GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because she was too rough. Dennis, 23, followed his older brother to Chicago, where he also plays left wing for the Black Hawks, and could some day make a name for himself. Bobby got his first pair of skates the Christmas he was four...
Arthur Karunakaran, one of the signers and a spokesman for the group, said yesterday that the job under question is with the Anglo Cement Company in Johannesburg. Karunakaran said that he "understood that last year one Business School student took a job with the company...