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...Bible. Jude had convinced her that he would perform witchcraft on those items, to track and punish her if she again attempted escape. We drove to Jude's fortified crack den five minutes away. Lombard and I followed Elizabeth into the darkness behind the compound. We were joined by Shadrack, a kung-fu-trained church volunteer who worked as a financial adviser by day. Elizabeth tapped a secret knock, and after Jude ushered her in, Shadrack wedged his foot in the door. We pushed into the dingy flat, which bore the medicinal odor of crack. As the churchmen escorted Elizabeth...
American Heroes. Since he too is wanted by the police as an SSRC agitator, another student, Shadrack, 17, met me in a remote section of Soweto. "We are not a bunch of bomb-throwing radicals," he insisted. "Because we struggle for a decent education, the authorities call us Communists. What rubbish! My heroes are not Marx and Lenin. They are Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Our campaign is peaceful, non-Communist and nonviolent. How many police have been killed in this bloodshed? Three? That should prove which side is the violent one." (Officially, the SSRC has deplored firebombings buttressing...
...defiance of British authority and in disregard of a royal reprieve for the three men. No doubt existed about the guilt of the men, two of whom, James Dhlamini and Victor Mlambo, had murdered a white farmer in a Mau Mau-style ambush and the third of whom, Duly Shadrack, had axed a native chief to death in the bush. But by blatantly ignoring the mercy move of Queen Elizabeth, to whom they still claimed to profess fealty, the leaders of the runaway colony also applied the hangman's noose to the few fragile hopes that still remained...
Real objects and real people are enigmas to Billy. He loathes his job at Shadrack and Duxbury, an undertaking firm. He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered. Girls are a problem too. He is engaged to Rita and Barbara, but loves his beatnik playmate Liz, portrayed by Julie Christie, an actress so brimful of careless charm that she parlays a few brief scenes into instant stardom...
...cast follows: Shadrack J. M. Brown '23 Apley Ewing Stewart Masten Casper Garden E. P. Goodnow '17 Consul Thompson Rogers Thomas London Anthony Hillis J. W. D. Seymour '17 Exlenne Conrad Sallnger '23 Sholto W. L. Smyser '23 Eisle Ewing Miss Dorothy Sands Delphine Ewing Undecided
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