Word: caning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they seem remotely vigorous when the curtain rises. Weller (Cronyn) is in a rumpled bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...
...Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter to me is like being on a rollercoaster...
...Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged to keep the limousine, at a cost of $25 an hour, to carry him and his friends to a nearby motel for several hours...
...Ultimate Gumball. Chewing gum is no novelty, either. Only Alan Silverstone, 35, has made it so. He sees himself as a real-life Willie Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since...
...that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that is a major reason why Fidel Castro is eager to re-establish trade with the U.S., once Cuba's prime customer...