Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hedkvist sadly reported that postwar dreams of developing a sonar system to help the blind find their way are years short of fulfillment. Guide dogs are too costly for most of the world's blind, so the most widely useful device is still the oldest and simplest-the cane...
Victorian aunts had their own cure for the neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological method practiced by Chicago's Dr. Abraham Low. Vienna-born Dr. Low, 63, who is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, heads a growing movement (2,000 members) called Recovery, Inc., and dedicated to a kind of correspondence-school psychotherapy...
Judge Rumpff was shocked. "You have committed a brutal and merciless assault on a boy who was no more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
...Sugar Cane & Shells. In an age already short on privacy, the danger is apparent, but most of the watchdog work of television thus far has been beneficial. TV cameras, trimmed down to shoebox size and able to see in the dark when used with infra-red light, can go places and do things too dangerous for humans...
...industry has made the greatest use of watchdog TV. At an annual saving of $12,000 in guard salaries, Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts posts TV cameras for 24-hour watch of 300 yards of fence. Television eyes help check the speed of sugar cane moving along a conveyor belt at the Ewa Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television...