Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolboy hero of Buchan's The Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...
...Angeles, lights were strung on the palm trees, and passengers on incoming jets were greeted at International Airport by four 70-ft. crosses built onto the control tower. For the ninth consecutive year, the Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines sent a special candy-cane-striped bus reeling down the city's streets. Denver's gift-giving was handled partly by rented Santa Clauses, who, for about $5, delicately park their cars half a block away from the receivee's home (the better to avoid the reindeer issue), ring sleigh bells rather than the doorbell, but hand over...
...they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball, called and slopped hogs, milked cows, and walked through fields eating sugar cane. She can whistle through her teeth loud enough to split the bark off a pine...
Reaching for Spirits. Keeping an iron grip on tempo and rhythm, Klemperer forged a reading so scrupulously attentive to the score that it amounted almost to an analysis of Beethoven's thought. When the old man hobbled from the stage with the help of his heavy cane, the audience had heard Beethoven illuminated as by no other living conductor...
...fields abroad. Besides last week's Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras. Theo. H. Davies has burgeoning sugar and cement operations in the Philippines, and Alexander & Baldwin is reportedly dickering...