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A letter from Mary Turok

Dad, Mom, Ben, Mary and Sherry Dear Philip, Eve and Tony were very dear friends of ours since they joined "the movement" in 1960, bringing fresh enthusiasm and liveliness into quite a battered Congress of Democrats. Their Johannesburg house (in Norwood or Oaklands?) was a happy meeting place and a shelter for lost souls. The twins were born there and you were just a little boy, wondering what had happened. I can picture Eve today with the babies each cradled in one arm. If I'm not mistaken they had taken out twin-insurance because there were twins in Eve's family. That must have helped as they were never flush with money - it wasn't important to them. Shortly afterwards they moved to a kind of experimental farm north of Johannesburg (I can't remember the name) and were there when Eve was arrested with me, Pixie Benjamin, Mollie Anderson, Costa Gazides and Gerald Ludi (who turned out to be a police agent) . We were sentenced to 6 months for furthering the objec