Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Russell Long from cane-growing Louisiana, who will have a powerful voice when the next quotas are written, says : "I don't think we should be favoring a country that is practically waging war on us." But, North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, whose Agriculture Committee will initiate the law, plans to try to put over an extension of present quotas for the "probationary" period of one year...
...their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa Konrads, were born in Latvia...
Junior Weekend in Philadelphia gives the students a chance to display their dinks, buttons, or skimmers. The festivities started Thursday with the traditional Cane Walk, in which the juniors parade around the campus wth bought ($1.30) or borrowed canes that symbolize the advancement from a wise fool to an to an upperclassman. A pep rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying...
Returning to Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...