Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable followed. On many tea and rubber plantations, work came almost to a halt. Red labor leaders called flash strikes on the slightest provocation. Plantation managers who balked at the strikers' demands found themselves faced with anarchy. In Kerala's 107° heat, workers surrounded the homes of the managers, cut off their supplies of food and water. On one plantation the workers urinated in all the rain barrels, were defeated only when the plantation manager ripped off the roof of his house and collected rain water in the bedrooms. Loyal workers who tried to smuggle food...
...lady is, of course, Countess Aurelia--the title personage of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
...changed their minds about Jory's experiment. Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away). The villagers even took them on in cricket matches and invited them to tea. Among their hosts was the objecting lady magistrate herself, who last week took a bunch of the boys off on a sightseeing tour of some local Roman ruins. Concluded Albert Clarke, a retired police superintendent and unofficial camp "commandant," who had come along to enforce discipline in case of trouble...
...range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January. Krick's system ("Do they think I use tea leaves?") is based on a theory that weather repeats itself in wavelike patterns, plus a newly rented (for $50,000 a year) Remington Rand Univac computer. By feeding vast globs of 60-year-old data into his Univac, Krick accurately forecast the inaugural sunshine 17 days ahead of time...
...labor, already hard pressed by heavy taxes and a decline in real wages. In April a rise in bus fares provoked rioting that killed 22 people. A fortnight ago, when President Ibanez moved to slash government expenses by reducing the subsidies that held down the price of sugar and tea, the government accompanied the order with special instructions to the police on how to quell any rioting that might follow: sound a bugle three times at two-minute intervals, then break up the mobs by any means necessary...