Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wide, Wide World ostensibly dealt with Our Heritage but this time its ranging from New Orleans to San Francisco, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canada had a postcard unreality: nothing that the viewer saw seemed to be actually happening. Everything-whether a Cajun picnic or a tour of a three-masted schoon-er-appeared to have been elaborately and ineptly staged for television...
...jockeys' room, the riders slip on their silks. Thin-faced Eric Guerin, the Cajun-born veteran who is about to ride the Dancer for the 20th time (in 21 races), still feels special about it. "You can try to tell someone how good it is, how strong he feels and what it's like to ride him," he says, "but you can't; a guy's just got to ride him to know."Jockey Jack Westrope, whose mount, Magic Lamp, is a 30-to-1 shot, says: "I'm not afraid of the grey horse." Guerin looks at Westrope...
...skilled workers. Most workers live rent-free in company-owned houses, some of them hovels, some adequate. Most workers trade in company stores and are completely dependent on the plantation owners. About two-thirds are illiterate; some know no English, speak only a Cajun patois. Four-fifths are Negroes. Major objective of the strike is not to seek improvements in wages or living standards, but to gain recognition of the union...
...Orleans' sprawling City Park was once a sugar plantation. Now it combines the languorous beauty of the Cajun country with a football stadium, two 18-hole golf courses, an amusement area, picnic grounds, a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, dozens of tennis courts and an art museum...