Word: canes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friendship proved to be a mismatch. Russia poured in experts, goods and equipment with little idea what Cuba needed. The Cubans in turn expected miracles from their new ally and banked on fancy experts to solve their problems for them. But when Karushchev's new cane cutting-machines mangled every stalk they touched, it became obvious that these experts and their machines were just Russian bears. Their pre-set ideas of development based on an Eastern European model could not help agrarian Cuba...
While purchase agreements kept cane cutting prosperous, the Cuban economy was only as healthy as the American. In 1932 Cuban unemployment registered an all time high of 50 per cent! It did not recover fully until the 1952 Korean boom when cane production reached a record seven million tons. This mark was surpassed only last year when eight and one half million tons were processed due to a national mobilization. In such a situation, America's termination of sugar contracts, under the Kennedy administration, dealt a particularly severe blow to the guerrilla government...
...trying to start a "dialogue" with Peking. In other steps toward establishing a new posture in a changing world, McMahon gave the Soviet Union permission to establish a trade office and a shipping agency in Sydney, and approved the sale of $2,240,000 worth of Australian sugar-cane harvesting machines to Cuba, despite Washington's apparent displeasure...
...Office of Economic Opportunity. At Michigan State University, which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises openings for such jobs as organizers to work with sugar-cane laborers in Louisiana ($70 a week) and a female counselor at Washington, D.C.'s Runaway House ($50 a week plus rent). There was also one offer last fall from a retired accountant in Far Rockaway, N.Y., who wanted to finance two "real drop-outs" in starting a combination school and commune...
...James Baldwin and William Kelley, representatives of four generations of 20th-century black literature, have given the problems and possibilities in the interpersonal relationships of black people. A fine example of scholarship which "is not scholarship for the sake of scholarship," Miss George's analysis points to Toomer, whose Cane was "written in a time more hopeful than our own," as providing the literary model of "the union of feminine fertility and masculine virility," in an atmosphere of vitality and mutual respect. The piece suffers only from an inherent defect in the short-survey form, that it attempts to cover...