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...permanent President of Haiti, but as the end of his term neared, he resolved to impose a manageable puppet in elections set for next April. But Haitians spurned what .amounted to another Magloire administration. Instead, they warmed up to Opposition Candidate Louis Dejoie, a well-to-do planter who promised a businesslike regime...
...nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually...
Budding Buddhists. Sir John, himself a wealthy planter, always sought his political support chiefly among the middle class. For their votes, his opposition concentrated on the poor, the country villagers, the discontented. Soon the campaign turned into a contest in Buddhism. There are 5,500,000 Buddhists among Ceylon's 8,000,000 population, and each side strove to outdo the other in pledges of devotion to Buddha. Campaign cars careened through Ceylon's palms and rice fields loaded with saffron-robed monks, and each side accused the other of employing fake monks...
...plantation, and throughout his youth his father, Woods Eastland, steadily increased its size. "Judge" Woods Eastland was a lawyer by profession, and his practice was in Forest (pop. 1,500), in the hill coufitry about 100 miles from Doddsville. It was there that Jim grew up-a wellborn Delta planter's son set down amongst planter-hating "rednecks." Jim and his father were inseparable, but somehow Woods Eastland's rollicking geniality never rubbed off on his son, and Jim grew up cold, reserved and somewhat arrogant. Said a clerk in a Forest general store last week: "I hear...
Distinguished Prisoners. Aristocratic Pedro Beltran, businessman, cotton planter, publisher, and onetime Ambassador to Washington, paid the bills for Odria's successful 1948 revolution, but soon broke with Odria. Lately, Beltran has been booming a wealthy fellow businessman, Pedro Rosello, as an anti-government candidate in elections set for June. Beltran's newspaper La Prensa has loudly accused Odria of plotting to steal the elections for a hand-picked successor. To the dictator, this charge was suggestively reflected in Merino's manifesto. Cops raided and closed La Prensa. They arrested Beltran, Rosello, scores of others...