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...residents of Forest Hills N. Y. cut down a grove of trees in a Kew Gardens park...
Gough Whitlam was born July 11, 1916 in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. His father, Harry Frederick Ernest Whitlam, was a lawyer who eventually attained the high civil service post of Commonwealth Crown Solicitor and also became Australian representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. As a boy, Gough liked to sit at dinner with the family encyclopedia at his back, handy for reference in arguments. Gough left one school after a teacher complained of his impudence, a charge that was to be echoed throughout his life. In Canberra Grammar, he was classed as industrious but not brilliant, good...
...baseball fan, and most of the participants at high-level U.N. meetings probably never suspected that the scraps of paper delivered to him during their sessions sometimes contained nothing more momentous than the scores of games. A very private man, he lived quietly with his family in the Kew Gardens section of New York City...
...film is urging us to look very carefully at people, and understand how by wishing to keep well when irrational acts are killing them, they destroy themselves. If we are to take the film seriously, there must be no revulsion at Patsy's death, and no Kew Gardens harping on apathy. Luckily, the subsequent shot is humane but unsentimental: Alfred stumbles down a crowded subway, still splattered with Patsy's blood. Though the seated travelers do not rise to help him, and look away embarrassedly, they're not particularly hateful. They're probably very interesting people themselves, and their faces...
...hard murder to forget. Thirty-eight people passively watched as a man stalked, stabbed and killed Kitty Genovese, 28, in the predawn darkness of the Kew Gardens section of New York City five years ago. All heard her screams; none came to her aid. Since then, the paralysis of the innocent by stander has spurred psychologists to in vestigate man's unfortunate proclivity for playing the Bad Samaritan...