Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BETZLER Canton, Ohio...
...Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip shots sharp, his putting amazingly accurate. With the additional help of body English on the greens, Burke beat Florida's Ted Kroll 3 and 2, to become the only golfer besides Sam Snead to win the Masters and P.G.A. tournaments in the same year...
Only 90 coastal miles separate Canton and Hong Kong, but they are two whole worlds apart. In the last days of free Canton, before the Communists took over, Hsiao Tao-huang and her husband said goodbye to her sister Hsiao Ming, who was pregnant and was staying behind with her husband. At first the two families wrote occasionally, but then it became wiser not to. Recently in Canton, Hsiao Ming took advantage of relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought...
Little Li Po gawked at the food on the Huang's table, then pitched in with his chopsticks ahead of everyone else. The Huangs were startled, but his mother remarked defensively that food was scarce in Canton because Red China "is saving to build for the future." "I and young men like me," announced little Li Po at this point, "will be masters of the future." A pall of silence fell over the meal...
...Munich picture magazine Quick. Pabel applied for a visa while covering the Moscow visit of a West German soccer team. A few months later, he was surprised when it was granted, with only one restriction: no photographs of military installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their...