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...propounds the parable of a young teacher (Eiji Okada again) who takes a field trip to an isolated duneland, misses the last train, accepts an invitation from the village elders to sleep in a shack at the bottom of a sand pit. In the morning he finds the ladder drawn up and no way out of the pit. "I'm sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again and again he tries, again and again he fails. Slowly, through long years of suffering, he learns to relinquish his will...
...Paterson a dozen punks boarded a bus, smashed windows and terrorized passengers. Negroes in a third-floor tenement rained debris down on a group of cops, then slammed the window. Firemen quickly scrambled up a ladder, smashed the window and seized two men and a woman. When bottles came hurtling out of another building, a flying wedge of cops charged in, flushed nine youths and arrested all but one-a child of seven or eight whom Mayor Graves whacked once on the behind and sent home...
...criminals planned so well that they knew even the one precise moment during the night when the guard would be alone. Just as he was making his round, a team of probably three men was propping a ladder against the 20-foot wall outside. Swinging down inside on a rope ladder they had brought along, the determined crew dashed across 20 yards of open space and up the steps to the rear of cell block...
...gradually becomes evident that Prescott will move mountains for boys who accept his authority, but anyone who questions it is in for trouble. One wayward student locks the great man in his office, forcing him to make an undignified exit down a ladder from the window. An outraged Prescott takes his revenge by making a moral issue of the prank and ultimately hounds the boy to suicide...
...Long III, known to his friends as the Prince of Whales. Hefting a 16-lb. iron ball in one hammy hand, he crouched low, tucked the ball behind his right ear, and began to inch back his left foot like a second-story man feeling his way down a ladder in the dark. Suddenly, he dipped and flung himself bodily across the ring. A grunt, a gasp-the shot soared through the air and thudded into the turf 66 ft. 3½ in. away. For the second time in twenty days-and the third time this spring-Dallas Long...