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...involuntary toil of a sugar plantation and lived a jungle-boy existence for twelve years. In 1880, when slavery was abolished in Cuba, he returned to human society. His descriptions of village life resurrect a forgotten world. He recalls work, fiestas, cock fights, fashions and trysts in the cane fields with a simplicity that imparts an aura of vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer...
...urgency of Cuba's farm production is everywhere apparent in the countryside. Castro has promised that the sugar-cane crop "will be 10 million tons rain or no rain" by 1970. Echoing his call are red and yellow pop-art billboards along the roads proclaiming "ten million in '70," while Santa Clara bars push the "ten million cocktail"-a concoction of rum, triple sec and cane sugar. But publicity and propaganda do not grow sugar cane, and most experts doubt that Castro can deliver on his promise. After a prolonged drought, this year's crop...
...Rocky fares no better at Oliphant's hands than the rest of the presidential contenders. A buck-toothed Bobby, playing Pied Piper, is not so much leading as being rushed by a frenzied bunch of women tearing at his clothes. A diminutive Hubert Humphrey, hat and cane gingerly in hand, is pushed on to stage center by a Large But disjoined paw from the wings. A frantic Dick Nixon, decked out as a magician, thrusts his arm into a hat and plucks out a hairy hawk clutching a bomb. "And voila," says Nixon, "we haul out a dove...
...bicyclists were set on their way by a starter with a flowing Edwardian tie; a grand marshall with a cane greeted them at the finish line. In between, they raced Porsches on Soldiers Field Road, startled little girls in Newton Corner, and fought their way along infamous Route 16. "The Odyssey of our time," John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, is said to have remarked...
...week in the '20s; of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died...