Word: canings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vegas, Hibbing sits out in the middle of nowhere, some 60 miles northwest of Duluth. It too is a city of straight streets and flat terrain. It has an MGM lounge (rather more subdued than its Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that it has the world's largest open-pit iron mine...
...testimony on record--but consider the source. The words are those of Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose Communist regime has expelled bishops and priests, eliminated church schools, made it difficult for practicing Christians to get government jobs and even discouraged the observance of Christmas because it impeded the sugar- cane harvest. Pronouncements on faith, however, surface regularly in Fidel and Religion: Conversations with Friar Betto, just published in Cuba with Castro's own imprimatur. It is proving to be an instant hit: when the 379-page volume went on sale in Havana bookstores three weeks ago, lines of purchasers stretched...
Lutz also received pennies taped together into the shape of a cane. "My Secret Santa called it the first penny pack from Pennypacker," she says...
Kupersmith Florist has set up an elaborate window display of bonsai plants and white lights which has "attracted a lot of attention," according to manager Al Brown. Emack & Bolio's has stocked up on holiday ice cream flavors including egg nog, rum, candy cane and the old traditional yuletide desert product cranberry ice cream...
...while they held a liars' contest. First prize was $10, second $7.50 and third $5. Ernie Thompson, wearing a Chevrolet cap and leaning on a cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which...