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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...
Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) has elaborated: "We never trekked, we never developed a new language, we were never defeated in war, we never had to pick ourselves out of the dust." Paton, 84, once served as president of the now defunct Liberal Party and feels the Afrikaners' tribal sense outweighed the English fondness for making money and playing golf. "The English here don't want to rule everything and everybody," he says. "Both Afrikaners and English have a love of the country, but the Afrikaner's love is in general more fierce, more emotional, more aggressive...