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Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
...more suitable for the mostly ceremonial position than Vanier, a courtly, erect soldier-diplomat full of years and his country's honors. Major General Vanier's family emigrated to New France from Normandy 300 years ago. Tall, mustached, old-worldly, he walks with a black walnut cane, a reminder of the leg he lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort...
Side Show. In Istanbul, Turkey, beaten with a cane once too often by his gypsy master Arif Arat, a dancing bear named Karaoglan broke his chains, grabbed the cane, gave his master a sound drubbing, ambled...
Hiram Leong Fong, 52, U.S. Senator, who will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, greying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying, changed his first name from Yau to Hiram to honor a venerable Congregational missionary, Hiram...
This week, 760,000 of Cuba's 2,300,000-man labor force-roughly one-third-are without work. With the sugar cut and milled, 200,000 seasonally employed cane cutters and millworkers will join the 400,000 Cubans chronically unemployed and the 160,000 workers made jobless by the construction slowdown. Says a Havana businessman: "The country is going broke in a hell of a hurry." Said a sugar broker: "Cuba is being reduced from a first-rate nation with a sound peso to a third-rate nation...