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...James Hill and his family were held captive for 19 hours by three escaped convicts in their suburban home near Philadelphia. In 1955 Playwright Joseph Hayes dramatized a similar ordeal of the "Hilliard" family in The Desperate Hours. When the play opened in Philadelphia, LIFE'S editors decided to photograph the cast re-enacting some of the play's scenes in the Hills's old home, which they had since left to move to Connecticut. The Hills were not consulted...
...reputation for checking its facts carefully. In this case, though, he charged the magazine with "reckless disregard for the plaintiff's rights" and "fictionalization for the purpose of profit." Time Inc. Lawyer Harold Medina Jr. pointed out the many similarities between the Hill incident and the Hilliard play, and argued: "This is a nondefamatory article. We said the family were heroes." Just how the court resolves this conflict between privacy and free expression may have important constitutional consequences...
Like Goldreich, the other arrested whites were also prominent in South Africa's intellectual community: Lawyer Robert Hepple; Dr. Hilliard Festen-stein, a noted medical researcher; Engineer Dennis Goldberg; Architect Lionel Bernstein. Among the nonwhites seized was Walter Sisulu, onetime Secretary-General of the banned African National Congress and one of the country's most wanted...
...doing something about the frustration of pioneers like Raymond W. Hilliard [Dec. 14] as he tries to teach "little-red-hen" materials to adult illiterates...
...them so self-conscious about their lack of education that one man, for example, habitually carried a newspaper with him to mask his total illiteracy. Next month, enrollment will reach 8,000, and 10,000 more people are waiting to sign up. If he can find the money. Pioneer Hilliard hopes to expand to 60,000 students. All he needs is $2,000,000 a year-not so much compared to Cook County's $16 million monthly relief bill...