Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: In Uvalde, Texas, onetime Vice President John Nance Garner, 85, sold his stock in the town's First State Bank and retired from its board of directors. Said "Cactus Jack": "I'm probably vacating the last office I will ever take the oath to administer. I'm just getting lazy. I shun work now more than I ever have...
...home in Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, 84, who was once denounced by Labor Boss John L. Lewis as "a whisky-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man," had his picture taken as he played a wicked game of solitaire without a poker chip or drop of bourbon-and-branch water in sight...
Slicing through the cloud-mantled mountains and the coastal rain forests, through cactus-fenced pastures and corn-clad canyons, four major paved highways now march from the U.S. border to Mexico City. New roads, rebuilt railroads and oil pipelines now crisscross the countryside. Some sleepy towns of yesterday have become buzzing 20th century cities. Colonial Salamanca, seat of the government's big new oil refinery, looks like a Texas oil town by night, with its orange flares glowing over pipes and vents...
Certainly, the native-born young Israelis, the "sabras" (nicknamed from an edible cactus that is prickly on the outside, soft and sweet within) who fought for their land like lions under the inspiration of Zionism, have been searching for a new source of inspiration. The intense Zionist ideology of heroic manual work in an atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter...
Like many a researcher before him (including the late great Havelock Ellis), British Psychiatrist John Smythies was fascinated by the extraordinary visions he had after taking mescaline, an alkaloid derived from a Mexican cactus.* Unlike opium and other drugs, which bring on hallucinations, mescaline seems to leave the power of critical observation intact. And what the subject sees, says Dr. Smythies after comparing notes with his friends, are visions of "the utmost poetical integrity...