Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Side Show. In Istanbul, Turkey, beaten with a cane once too often by his gypsy master Arif Arat, a dancing bear named Karaoglan broke his chains, grabbed the cane, gave his master a sound drubbing, ambled...
Hiram Leong Fong, 52, U.S. Senator, who will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, greying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying, changed his first name from Yau to Hiram to honor a venerable Congregational missionary, Hiram...
This week, 760,000 of Cuba's 2,300,000-man labor force-roughly one-third-are without work. With the sugar cut and milled, 200,000 seasonally employed cane cutters and millworkers will join the 400,000 Cubans chronically unemployed and the 160,000 workers made jobless by the construction slowdown. Says a Havana businessman: "The country is going broke in a hell of a hurry." Said a sugar broker: "Cuba is being reduced from a first-rate nation with a sound peso to a third-rate nation...
When his father gets a job as foreman at a distant cane plantation, he asks Tiger to come along as his assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read...
...would not officially achieve the rank of head of state until his country withdraws its allegiance next fall to the British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean...