Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble with Glass. Hansen has been vaulting ever since he was a sixth grader in Cuero, Texas. "It's always fascinated me," he says, "because it isn't something that everybody can do. I fixed me up an old cane pole and started working out. At first, I only did distance jumping, to see how far I could go from one spot to another, using the pole to boost me along. Then my father built me a regular pit out of sand, and I was hooked." In high school, Hansen jumped 13 ft. 6 in. with a Swedish...
...blame? The Public Health Service said they were when 5,000,000 fish died last fall in the Mississippi Delta. After a hurried investigation and an analysis of the remains of ten dead catfish, PHS blamed the entire slaughter on endrin, an insecticide used on cotton and sugar cane in the farms around the lower reaches of the river. No significant amount of endrin was found in the water where the fish died, reported Cincinnati's Dr. Donald Mount. But in the blood of the dead catfish, he said, enough endrin was found to be fatal...
Cats in the Cane. Tensions have been building up for years between the two peoples in Britain's small, self-governing South American colony. Instead of seeking to calm the passions, Jagan has only fanned them higher. Three months ago, he sent his East Indian sugar workers out on a jurisdictional strike against a larger, anti-Jagan union. Cats were doused with gasoline and sent yowling through the cane fields as living torches. Jagan's 'strikers attacked Negroes in the fields; half a dozen workers died of the beatings. Retaliating in kind, gangs of Negroes went hunting...
...Lower Egypt. Not only does the rain-fed flood vary in volume year by year, producing the "seven fat years and seven lean years," but at best spills some 9 billion gallons of fresh water into the sea annually, often leaving Egypt's cash crops of cotton and cane thirsty between floods...
...could be excused for not making the effort. But for Joseph Kennedy, 75, effort has always been worthwhile. Last week the former Ambassador to Britain had recovered sufficiently from his 1961 stroke to walk slowly under his own power into Manhattan's Caravelle restaurant for dinner. A wooden cane helped, and so did his niece and constant companion, Ann Gargan, but the fact remained that he can walk across a room. He can also rise from a chair using just the cane, and his speech is showing improvement. Now in Hyannis Port, he has spent the last three weeks...