Word: caning
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...Party. On July 7, 1954, Nyerere converted a social club into the Tanganyika African National Union. TANU was his from then on. Off into the back country he went to recruit members and cut tribal bonds. Wearing green bush shirts, slacks and leather sandals, waving an ivory-topped cane and chain-smoking Clipper cigarettes (he has since stopped), Nyerere began touring Tanganyika in a battered Land Rover. "I still remember the license-DSK 750," he reminisces. "We had to push so often over the mudholes that I will never forget it." A low-key speaker who never talked down...
Near British Guiana's capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual...
There was last year's 3,800,000-ton sugar-cane crop-the lowest in modern Cuban history. The ministry's industrial investment plan for last year, said Che, was only 62% fulfilled, and for this year has been cut to 75% of the 1963 schedule. Raw-material imports reached only 70% of their scheduled level; because of this, Cuban industrial production was off 16%. Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn...
...tournament since 1960, collected the $4,000 big money at San Diego. "Champagne Tony" Lema, 29, who hardly qualifies as a hardship case ($67,112 last year), won the $5,800 Crosby first prize. But then there was Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez, 28, 120 Ibs. of sugar cane from Puerto Rico, who used to play with ladies' clubs. All he did was whomp everybody for $7,500 in San Francisco's Lucky International. Along the way, Rodriguez belted one drive 290 yds. and announced: "I was playing for position, not for distance...
...Finding that business was "less work and a lot more fun" than law, Lamb decided that "the way to build up a big fortune is to get control of companies." He now controls two dozen of them in such assorted industries as rubber tires and sugar-cane-harvesting equipment. For all his wealth, Lamb leans toward the left. At Harvard last week he urged admission of Red China into the U.N. and a "new look" at U.S. relations with Cuba...