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...series of up and down scrambles, then wriggled through a narrow tunnel with a mud floor and a roof that was sometimes no more than 10 in. above their heads. It took them two hours to progress 600 ft. The tunnel suddenly broadened into a fairly large chamber 1,000 ft. beneath the surface. Leading off from the chamber was a shaft measuring 2½ by 1½ ft. A young Oxford student, Neil Moss, 20, led the way but after a few moments' descent, his alarmed cry came back: "I'm stuck! I can't budge...
...trial and testimony (sensation seekers paid up to $10 to more favored folk to get seats in the tiny courtroom), a jury of eight women and four men wound up disbelieving Elizabeth Duncan's protestation of innocence. The jury recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber, left it for Judge Charles F. Blackstock to decide if she should be sent instead to a mental hospital...
...which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval of any court and the only appeal would be to a star chamber composed of five Rhodesian M.P.s...
From the rostrum of the Chamber of Representatives, Van Hemelrijck carefully explained himself. As long as the three leaders remained in prison they were a threat to the peace. "Tension still runs high," he said. "Wildcat strikes and the refusal to pay taxes are explained by the people as a resistance movement against the arrest of these men. Their pictures are everywhere in the native towns." The three Africans, he added, had agreed to come to Belgium in a state of "provisional freedom." As for discussing independence, "they may have their say," but in no way were they official negotiators...
Montreal, alas, has no poet laureate, no clarion voice to rise above the Commerce Chamber cackle. Hugh MacLennan, a witty essayist and novelist who picks up bread-money teaching at Montreal's McGill University, comes closest to doing the job. Although his interest is confined to only a small and often uninteresting segment of the varied populace, he understands it and explains it very well indeed...