Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maniema province, cold-eyed President Hilarie Kisanga enforces discipline with 1,200 barefoot cops who lounge in the streets armed with lead pipes, and who live off on-the-spot fines imposed on passersby. Protests a shopowner: "You walk on the right side of the street and you are fined. You walk on the left side and you are fined." The average Congolese has little legal redress. Today, in a nation three times the size of Texas, there are only 47 judges to hear complaints-all foreigners, imported by the U.N. from such countries as Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland...
...Cannon strums his banjo by the coal stove in his little house just south of the railroad tracks in Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself-songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk Right In. Half a century ago, he toured the South with a medicine show, but the last time he played downtown in Memphis, he went to jail. He was giving a sidewalk concert for handouts when "the policeman took me by the seat of my britches and put me in his car." A $26 fine was proof enough for Gus Cannon that...
...banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded Walk Right In and soon it walked right up among the top hits in the country...
...rich and resonant voice, he sang blues to his own full-chord banjo accompaniment while a friend kept time on the washboard and somebody else played the musical jug. Gus led the group through the old tunes-Long John Booker, The Chicken, Old Blue, and his own Walk Right...
...kiss again and walk beside the river...