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...Recife, Brazil one morning two weeks ago, military police arrested Frederick B. Morris, 40, a stringer (part-time correspondent) for TIME and the Associated Press. Taken to a military prison, he was held incommunicado for three days before being allowed to talk to a U.S. consul and unreel his tale of horror: while shackled to the door of his cell, he was subjected to a 32-hour stretch of unrelenting beatings and shocks administered through electrodes attached to various parts of his body. Reports of torture in Brazil's military jails have circulated for a decade, but Morris...
...part, of course, it is the season. Fresh-water fishing automatically summons thoughts of lyrical spring days, when minutes, like dragonflies, hover motionless over water. Perhaps more important are the benefits derived from angling's lack of speed. Unlike any other outdoor sport, it allows the mind to unreel and stretch itself. With luck, and time, and endurance, the angler gets the long-awaited result. Out of dark water, the fish flashes to the surface like a new idea-and in that instant the sport justifies its glorious history...
...dour, daft family, his rages, his uncomplaining wife ("He felt a drop in her interest when she seemed certain there was nothing much in it for her but pleasure"), his keen, cold eye, his utter isolation−they all unreel as episodes unreel by the roadside, bizarre but not unexpected...
What then is in this season without also being out-outspoken, outrageous or out of sight? Movies. All three networks will unreel miles of movies, not only made-for-TV slickies but also an impressive array of recent hits from commercial theaters. Among them: Yellow Submarine, Patton, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, In the Heat of the Night and Love Story...
...economy to gain some strength for perhaps an all-out assault this fall." The nation's vacationing students appear ready to try one last time to work within the system for reform, but if they lose in November, the old story of violent unrest may well unreel anew. The Administration's moves to end dual school systems in the South have muted some criticism from blacks, but angered some former Nixon supporters. Last week South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, once a defender of Richard Nixon against the Wallaceites, accused the President of following a "Northeast philosophy...