Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white elephant soon forgets what he's called...
...Accompanied by his new lectern and a planeload of Harry Truman's old White House aides, Johnson went to pay tribute to the former President on the establishment of the Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Leaning heavily on his cane and looking all of his 81 years, Truman, in a speech read for him, said of the years since he began to fight the cold war: "It all seems to have been in vain. Memories are short and appetites for power and glory are insatiable. Old tyrants depart. New ones...
First Call. The facility's basic plant, the ninth domestic petrochemical operation for fast-growing Phillips, will be erected on 400 acres of sugar-cane fields in Guayama district on Puerto Rico's south shore. Phillips will invest $45 million in the core plant, receive a twelve-year tax forgiveness, get on stream in 21 months. Then the company will reinvest its earnings for ten years (to a total of $55 million) in a string of satellite petrochemical plants on 2,600 surrounding acres. The satellites will be owned jointly by Phillips, other U.S. companies and Puerto Rican...
...Hartford has filled his museum from top to bottom with 375 items of Dali's hitand-miss genius. But it was Dali himself who won best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata and his flamen co-booted partner-while a museum aide scampered back and forth across the stage to keep Dali in drawing pens...
...Roosevelt Raceway. Backed down by the bettors to odds of 1-5, the three-year-old-bay colt took the lead at the start and stayed there, beating Tuxedo Hanover by half a length to sew up the Triple Crown for pacers (he had already won the Cane Futurity and Little Brown Jug) and record his 45th victory in 48 races...