Corporal Arlie H. Pate, 21, is one of the 23 American "progressives" held by the Reds in Korea who do not want to come home. One of nine children, he grew up in the bare hill country of southern Illinois, not far from the state boundary of the Mississippi River. His father, Daniel Howard Pate, ailing from epilepsy, was seldom able to work. After living for years near East St. Louis, Howard Pate moved his family to a cheap, 62-acre farm south of Carbondale, Ill.two acres of corn and the rest scrubby, uphill pasture. Arlie had many friends near...
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