Word: albinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs, and imagines the lost meaning of her life in bizarre epiphanies: a glimpse of flowers growing in a dead mule, an encounter with an albino Negro boy who "ain't got biddie brains in his head...
...ears, it could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white...
...placed qualified professionals at the head of key city departments, and reversed a city ordinance that required housewives to separate cans from all other trash. He defends his record literally from A (for airport-"We made it self-supporting") to Z (for zoo -"The city is getting some rare albino kangaroos"). But his administration has been marred by his constant and noisy fights with the city council, and he is currently involved in a controversial attempt to amend the city charter to give the mayor more power...
...Agent" of the Yankees. The present scandal erupted when Petrobras President Albino Silva, 54, a peppery army general appointed last year, started a one-man campaign against corruption and Communist influence within the company. He stopped all hiring (8,000 new employees were added during the two preceding years), looked into shady dealings of Petrobras executives, twice blocked strikes approved by a Petrobras director, and cracked down sharply on lavish publicity spending. Silva took his evidence to Brazil's President Joao Goulart. When word leaked out, a newspaper article appeared with statements accusing the general himself of engineering...
...vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...