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Very Fortunate. In December, Ma and his wife and two children, all musicians, somehow managed to flee from China to Hong Kong, where he sought asylum in the U.S. Exactly how Ma rejoined his family and managed to escape remains untold, but he is reported to have reached Hong Kong with other escapees in a small boat. At any rate, ensconced at the Manhattan home of his brother, a violinist who left China before the Communists took over, he allowed that he was "very fortunate. Many prominent writers who could not get away have committed suicide...
Jose Luis Romero counted himself among this group and, the following year, when Peron was properly elected to the Pink House, Romero had to flee the country and seek asylum in Montivideo. Romero had ten years to reconsider his initial impression of Peron, and only after the jefe unico had been ousted by the Argentine Navy could he return to his country...
...Lanford Wilson, is a little bit like seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around the trial...
...freed, before the end of their allotted terms, four Americans who had been in East German prisons for more than a year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
...Committee for Refugees and a former secretary to the Eisenhower Cabinet, who has lately spent considerable time arranging freedom for other Communist captives. He won the release last March of John Van Altena, a young American who had also been convicted of assisting an East German family trying to flee to the West...