Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cactus...
...staff-Editor Carlson and Art Director George Avey, a former highways department draftsman-pick pictures just because they like them, and have no qualms about running the same sort of picture again & again. In five years, Carlson figures they have printed some 250 shots of cactus flowers. Says he: "Every once in a while readers say 'no more Indians,' but never have they said 'too many cactus flowers...
Every afternoon after services, groups of cowhands and ranchmen sat around whittling under the "Prayer Tree," a stately juniper that towers over Nogal Mesa's stunted pinñon and cactus. There, with no clerical coaching allowed, they talked out their ideas on practical religion...
Peyote is the fruit of the mescal cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which grows abundantly in Mexico and in parts of Texas. Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...
...French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills to enjoy a picnic lunch...