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...other prisoners, Chan was shipped into the mountains of northern Kwangtung to work twelve hours a day on a skimpy ration of rice. Within two months. 300 of the prisoners died. In this and two other camps, Chan was continually in trouble. After writing a poetic lament for his pre-Communist life, Chan was denounced before a mass meeting of other prisoners, beaten, and forced to stand and kneel and stand again for hours. In 1960, while on a rock removal detail, Chan complained to the authorities that "corrupt cadres" were stealing the rice supposed to go to the prisoners...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Peter Falk and Neville Brand guest-star in Lament for a Dead Indian. Repeat...
...Pins and Needles, however, is as timeless as good show music can be, and at its best Rome's 25-year-old sleeper is a match for any show album on the market. Certainly no album of the current season more tunelessly defines the Wallflower's Lament...
...July 29: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event - BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Monteux - Beethoven: Symphomy No.2 - Purcell: Dido's Lament (Gray-Masse) - Weber: "Ocean Thou Mighty Monster" (Gray-Masse) - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben...
Across the U.S., some 250 condemned men are languishing behind bars, waiting to be executed for their crimes. Almost all of them could join in the lament of Paul Orville Crump, an inmate of Cook County (Ill.) jail: "I don't want to die. I want to live." To the State of Illinois, Crump is Prisoner 143384, male Negro, age 32-a convicted murderer sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 3. Crump's fight for life has stirred the biggest and most surprising outburst of clemency pleas since the Caryl Chessman case two years...