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...assembly listened ever so politely. So did bearded Headmaster Robert Copping, who is only 28. "Tell me, Mr. Wildman," he asked, "what is the most suitable cane for a boy 15 years old or over?" Wildman brandished his prized 30-inch Dragon Smoky Malacca, "a very pliant and punishing cane." "And how many strokes do you advise?" Headmaster Copping asked. Smiling, Wildman suggested "Six of the best, in the place that seems to have been provided by nature for the purpose." At that point, Headmaster Copping gave a signal...
Immediately, 20 boys rushed Mr. Wildman. One grabbed his 30-inch Dragon Smoky Malacca. Others held him in position. Wildman winced, whooped and hollered. But the cane whistled and fell, whistled and fell again...
...King's doctors believe they have caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...
...Oksana Stepanovna Kasenlcina, now feeling "very, very good" and able to walk a little with a cane, checked out of a Manhattan hospital (in a wheel chair) 100 days after her leap from a third-floor window of the Soviet consulate. Before she left she gave a little party (strawberry shortcake) for her friends at the hospital, and received the press. Her plans? Perhaps she would write a book, maybe go back to schoolteaching, but she intended "to serve the Russian people by telling Americans of the hardships the Russians suffer under Soviet dictatorship." And "I would be proud...
...need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods were unlikely to help in settling the biggest labor dispute of all: how much Cuba's 400,000 sugar hands would be paid for harvesting the winter's cane crop...