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...prison. Their number swelled at week's end with the sentencing to death of five Africans convicted of entering Rhodesia with "weapons of war"-a newly created capital offense. The gallows, on the other hand, became suddenly unmanned; the government dismissed Rhodesia's only hangman, Edward ("Lofty") Milton, probably because he has been talking too much to the press about his work...
...Harvard graduate who was practicing medicine in Milton, he entered the College in 1929 as the nation plunged into the Great Depression. In four years, he performed amazing athletic and scholastic feats, winning All-America and Phi Beta Kappa honors. When he graduated in 1932, he had 10 letters and the preeminent position in the pantheon of Harvard sports heroes...
Called to do the honors from the roadside restaurant he owns, Edward ("Lofty") Milton, 54, Rhodesia's part-time public executioner, was professionally incapable of understanding the commotion. While African women clustered outside Salisbury's Central Prison and uttered the mournful wail of the Shona tribe, "Wayehe, wayehe" ("Please, God"), Milton sprang the traps on the prison's gallows last week and sent three Rhodesian blacks spinning into eternity. Then, returning to the pleased white patrons of his Zambezi Valley café, he sent off a postcard to a friend: "Three in one this time." He signed...
...certainly embolden the right-wingers in Smith's government to press the regime to declare Rhodesia a republic and thus make final its break with Britain. Showing its complete contempt for world opinion, Rhodesia at week's end sentenced eight more Africans to death and ordered Lofty Milton to stand by for more executions...
...poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when teachers decid ed that a student was not benefiting, they simply let him join conventional...