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Died. Walter Sisulu, 90, South African political activist, chief strategist of the African National Congress (ANC) and longtime jail mate of Nelson Mandela; in Johannesburg. Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing. In 1963 a group of antigovernment activists were tried for planning acts of sabotage and antiapartheid revolution, for which Sisulu and Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sisulu spent the next 25 years incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island. "He has not been honored the way some of us have been... nevertheless, he stood...
...Chilean poet was a Communist, a devoted member of the party from 1945 until he died in 1973. The son of a railwayman and a witness to the Spanish Civil War, Neruda writes in his newly-translated Memoirs that he became a Communist because of his inability to accept exploitation as a fact of life. It was through Communism that Neruda though he could reach the peasants, miners and the world's discarded. He writes...
Like her accomplished New Zealand predecessors, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia (Spinster) Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, 36, writes with a cool eye, a detached sympathy, and a warm but un-sloppy love of sane and insane alike. The daughter of a New Zealand railwayman, Author Frame has herself been in and out of mental hospitals as a voluntary patient. Shy and wary of publicity, she has recently changed her name to Janet Clutha (after a New Zealand river). But, under whatever name, her writing is sensitive, and her evocation of madness unforgettable...
...pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss as you can manage." Fearing for life and limb, skittish London Transport workers appealed for help to their union, which last week demanded compensation for any railwayman who might be assaulted by indignant passengers...
...Berliner Zeitung trumpeted pridefully that East zone Christmas "gift tables will be more richly covered than ever before," 75-year-old Karl Meier bleakly shook his head, packed whatever he could into inconspicuous bundles and creaked furtively across the boundary into West Berlin. Herr Meier, a pensioned railwayman, thereby achieved a statistical distinction: he was the 300,000th refugee to escape to West Berlin in 1953, the biggest year of flight since World War II. The refugee rollcall for the preceding four years...