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...deprogramming target, Arlene ("Patti") Thorpe, 23, a member of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a commune of several hundred Jesus people in Saugus, Calif., escaped from a marathon ten-day grilling. Her mother, brother and stepfather captured her after a Sunday service at the Alamo commune and drove her 150 miles to what Patti calls "a grim, middle-class motel" in Chul'a Vista, Calif. Ted Patrick, whom she describes as a "softspoken middle-aged man who didn't look like he'd hurt anyone," first took her Bible away from her and then sent...
...unfree." Instead of fulminating, he visited areas he had known as an aide to the Flying Tigers during World War II, and dug into mundane but fascinating areas of Chinese life. "There was hardly any sightseeing," he recalled. "It was going to a factory or going to a commune and spending hours and hours taking figures and tramping about endlessly seeing how the goddamned thing worked...
Such diligence paid off. Alsop's description of the economic base of a provincial commune or production methods at a small rural factory provide some of the freshest Western reporting yet from China. He even found evidence of humor in the seemingly stolid Communist leadership. At the start of a three-hour interview, Chou En-lai asked him, "Would you like to know what I really think, or would you like another of those boring public interviews...
Edward S. Englander, a worker at the Law Commune, said Monday, "I don't think the D.A. would have sought an indictment unless the report showed an assault." He asked that the report be made public...
...blossoms flower." By 1965 acrobats' status had risen so high that they were accused of being too bourgeois, lacking the "class character that would allow them to reflect the everyday struggles of the workers and peasants." Now they spend two months of every year in a factory or commune, working alongside the peasants by day and performing political skits and improvisations at night, adding new folk material to their acts...