Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...
...tall, active man as heavy with honors as with years (82) lolled in a wrought-iron chair on the breezeway of an apartment in Naples, Fla. last week and fiddled with a 10½-ft. cane fishing rod. Peering through the thick glasses he has needed since an operation last year for cataracts, he fussed with the black and yellow flies' that he had tied himself. He ruminated for a moment, then said: "I'm glad I won't be there. It would be embarrassing...
...there" he meant the Chicago meeting of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, which was awarding its highest honor, a gold-headed cane, to George Hoyt Whipple. The award had to be made in absentia because Dr. Whipple, allergic to the pollens of Northern elms and oaks, refused to leave his Florida retreat...
...canceling of the Cuban sugar quota has produced a rush by farmers to grow sugar cane, and Florida hopes for a 20% rise in its sugar quota. Floridians support the nation's biggest dog-racing industry and train a big share of its trotting horses in such sun-drenched towns as Ocala, where Sofa Manufacturer Bernard Castro is a leading horse breeder...
Kennedy has been using the high, cane-backed rocker since 1955, after an operation for an old back injury. It was recommended by Dr. Janet Travell, who has since become Kennedy's personal White House physician. When questioned about the rocker's presence in the White House, Dr. Travell explained that it "provides gentle, constant exercise and helps prevent muscular fatigue."' She added that "a really good rocker is hard to find...