Word: paton
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Great white liberals have always been a rare species in South Africa. Their ranks, diminished by the death of author Alan Paton at 85 a year ago, are about to be thinned again. After 36 years of combat against the forces of apartheid in Parliament, Helen Suzman, 71, announced last week that she will not seek re-election in September...
South African Novelist Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country, died of cancer last week. The book was an early expression of the developing racial anguish in South Africa and has become an international classic. Earlier this year, had asked him to write an essay about South Africa today. Two days after | his death, Paton's widow Anne forwarded the incomplete typescript with a note: "I am very sorry he never finished it, but it was almost done, and during the last few days before he went into the hospital he was just too tired. In any case...
...personal literary testament by Author Alan Paton, who died last week, lovingly recalls the words he and others wrote...
Charles D. Paton, lecturer on electrical engineering and computer science, said that the MIT Police had been maintaining foot patrols around the building, but could not keep a constant watch over the center, which is open to students 24 hours...
...asked [the MIT police] to seal the area by having a 24-hour guard, but they told us they didn't have the manpower to do that," Paton told The Tech...