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...China last week came six of the 41 U.S. civilians due for release under the recent agreement at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 19). One was a young airline pilot; four were Roman Catholic priests, one of whom bore shackle marks. There was also Walter A. Rickett, 34, of Seattle, alumnus of the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, who had been a Marine Corps intelligence officer on Iwo Jima. Richett had gone to China as a Fulbright scholar in 1948, and since July 1951, he had been in jail for "espionage." After meeting Walter Rickett in Hong Kong, TIME...
...Rickett has a little brown mustache that quivers as he talks. His voice wavers often, as if he suffers from a deeper weariness than he knows. He is utterly sure of himself, and he is sure in particular that the Communists favored him with a unique opportunity to "think things over," and to "decide for myself that certain things are right and certain things are wrong." The Communists have not so much converted him as stopped the clock for him, and maybe turned it back...
Hong Kong newsmen who have met hundreds of expellees from Red China said Bersohn and Mrs. Adele Rickett, the other American released, were apparently "among the most thoroughly brainwashed to arrive here...
...Rickett, who was studying in China on a Fulbright Scholarship, was imprisoned with her husband on the same charges as Bersohn. Her husband is still in the Peiping Prison...
...Harvard had only managed to log 180 miles. By contrast, Cambridge, in the racing pink, Had logged practice spins of about 850 miles, had defeated its traditional rival Oxford by 15 lengths, then whipped Yale a fortnight ago by four lengths (TIME, April 23). Said confident Cambridge Coach Harold Rickett: "We'll never be any better than...