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...Harvard, it wasn't very much like a depression," says Townsend W. Thorndike '35, a retired teacher in Exeter N. H. "Some fellows had to drop out, but Harvard was just a school, isolated from the world, living its own life...
...Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes keep on coming despite being zapped. Lieut. David Townsend of the Michigan state police is not sure of the stun guns' safety. "The manufacturers claim they are not lethal to healthy hearts," he says. "The people we deal with are not always healthy, so there is a risk of injuring or killing someone...
...Black students may face charges of high treason: upon their eventual return to South Africa, Townsend said, since any form of protest by South Africans against apartheid is illegal. The penalty for such action is a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of death...
...They believe very much in what they're doing," Townsend said. "They believe in their country, in their families, and in their people." Added Townsend, "I feel really angry, and the anger is keeping me from feeling the hunger...
...become very disenchanted with the normal legislative process," Townsend said, "and we hope this will put pressure on the trustees." He said trustees have flatly refused to meet with Coalition members...