Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the defendants were still awaiting trial, said Jackson, one local newspaper (the Orlando Sentinel-circ. 29,349) published a cartoon picturing vacant electric chairs. The caption: "No Compromise-Supreme Penalty." As mob violence swept the county, headlines appeared which Jackson thought inflammatory. Examples: the Sentinel's FLAMES FROM NEGRO HOMES LIGHT NIGHT SKY IN LAKE COUNTY, the Tampa Tribune's NIGHT RIDERS BURN LAKE NEGRO HOMES. Although the sheriff announced that the men had confessed, said Jackson, the "confession" itself was never introduced in evidence. Moreover, said he, the trial court had thrown out, as irrelevant, evidence...
...Many Birds Will Come." The man credited with solving it was bearded Orlando Villas Boas, who had parleyed with the Kalapalos for five years. From the first, the tribesmen admitted knowing Ingueleze, as they called Fawcett, but always insisted that their neighbors, the Iarumas, had murdered him. In time the canaiba (white man), with his friendly talk and timely gifts of pots & pans, gradually overcame their suspicions. Last year a newly elected chief, Komatzi, hesitantly confided to Orlando the reason why his people feared to talk about Fawcett. "Many birds [i.e., airplanes ] will come," he said, "carrying many canaibas...
Last month, after a council of the elders of the tribe had finally voted to cooperate with Orlando, Komatzi and 40 Kalapalo braves called at Orlando's headquarters deep in the jungle some 850 miles northwest of Rio. Taking Orlando and an interpreter, they marched eastward for five hours to the bank of the Kuluene River. There all halted in absolute silence. After another session with his elders, Komatzi sent a brave for a canoe. The chief stepped gravely toward Orlando, pointed to a mark cut in the trunk of a nearby tree. "This is how tall Ingueleze...
...Standing on It." The canoe carried the party across the river, and after a brief portage, across a lake. Each time, Orlando went last. On the far side of the lake he found the elders drawn up in council circle. Komatzi spoke for two hours, calling upon Orlando to defend the old men, women & children of the tribe in case of canaiba revenge. Orlando replied: "I give the Kalapalos my word and the word of the great father, there will be no revenge...
Truckers and other bus companies have used propane on & off for more than 15 years, but only recently has propane begun to eat into the gasoline market in a sizable way. About 20 cities, including San Antonio, Orlando, Fla. and Winnipeg, Canada, have recently added propane buses to their transit systems. Three months ago Milwaukee's Boynton Cab Co. began converting its 279-cab fleet to propane, the first cab company to do so. With its new fleet Chicago hopes to save up to 2? a mile in operating expenses...