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...grew up in grinding poverty, a wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself...
...famed public schools have long believed in the efficacy of corporal punishment (during this century at Eton, boys were held by two of their schoolmates over a flogging block to be beaten by teachers). The present Home Secretary, R.A.B. Butler, is on record "in favor of parents using the cane" on their offspring. A recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of British men, and a whopping 76% of British women, urge the flogging of young criminal offenders. Said a dejected British doctor: "Instead of feeling a sense of horror on hearing of some father brutally belting his son, many people...
...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...
Last week's ceremony of the gold-headed cane harks back to 1689, when Dr. John Radcliffe, physician to the co-sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to the first of four eminent successors in the practice of royal medicine. Now a museum piece, it has a hollow head, which may have been used as a vinaigrette, holding aro matic salts to ward off infection. U.S. pathologists revived the tradition of the gold-headed cane...
...outmaneuvered the Oahu Sugar Co. for 230 acres that it desperately wanted on the venerable Mark Robinson estate. The land controlled the irrigation track into the sugar company's fields, also the roads over which its cane-hauling trucks had to move. Ho extracted only an ounce of flesh when Oahu Sugar came to him after it had been outbid. "I could really have been tough on them," he says. "I could have sold for a $500,000 profit instead of only $150,000. But they'd never speak to me again, and this is a small town...