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There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...
...stick for support, a bent figure hobbled onto the starting grid at Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...
During the week, Ernest Coe, 47, walks short distances down the corridors of Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital with the aid of a cane. Using his left hand, he works the automatic elevator. He can tell time and speak intelligibly in short phrases. At home on weekends, he gets out of his wheelchair to take his meals at the table and insists on helping his wife with the dishes. And, adds his wife, he whistles at pretty girls, as he always...
Last week Meredith, 32, put his conviction to the test, though the effort seemed neither divinely inspired nor notably responsible. Striding out of Memphis along U.S. Highway 51, with a Bible in one hand and in the other an ivory-headed ebony cane that he had acquired during a 1964 trip to Africa, Meredith was bound for Jackson, Miss., 213 miles to the south. The announced purpose of the hike was to encourage Mississippi Negroes to register as voters, to challenge, as he put it, "the all-pervasive and overriding fear that dominates the day-to-day life...
...embarks on nationhood, Guyana has plenty going for it: rich bauxite deposits, extensive timberlands, and an excellent climate for rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy...