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...apparently well-documented accounts following the riots, many townsmen, students and faculty members charged that the police had largely provoked the disturbance and had indiscriminately beaten and arrested both offenders and bystanders. In one incident, police seized a reporter's camera and confiscated his films of the riot...
...private school going full blast, thus prepared for the boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
...produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight. In Guantanamo and Bayamo. townsmen use horse-drawn wagons because there is no gasoline...
...quiet good works; e.g., when he hears of deserving citizens whose taxes are in arrears he wipes out their delinquency. Between times, the fragile (135 Ibs.) philanthropist holds court in the coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived since his wife died in 1939. Fellow townsmen are allowed to stop and chat if a hovering nurse nods to them, are offered Robert Burns Panatelas at audience's end. The cigars must be smoked immediately; E. J. Baker likes his gifts to be used...
...learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind the coupled heroes, the moviemakers have sketched a mud-grimed tableau of the blood-happy townsmen giving chase and a soul-weary sheriff-played to sunken-eyed, raspy-throated perfection by Theodore Bikel. If Sidney Poitier's wild-eyed, bare-fanged portrayal of Cullen is overwrought, it has at least prodded Teen-Agitator Curtis into the first performance of his career that will incline...