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...Sprague, 33, along with a growing number of other watermen, harvest oysters in person-by diving for them. While Brown mans the helm of his 46-ft. work boat Frisky, Sprague plunges beneath the surface of the bay and sends the oysters topside in a wire basket. "It ain't easy," says the soft-spoken Sprague. "But it sure beats long-tonging...
...force the city, for the first time, to separate political loyalties from city jobs. But when the victory celebrations are over, and the real business of governing begins, Washington will face a city unaccustomed to political change. As one city councilor put it in the '20s, "this town ain't ready for reform." The existing power structures will still be there, and the cronice and lackeys of Byrne and Daley have yet to leave town. Like any reformer, Washington must face an opposition that resists changing the status quo, one which has suited them so well...
Least Heat Moon, whose name pays homage to his partly Indian ancestry, does not attempt to romanticize small-town life. Where he sees ignorance and hypocrisy he points it out and some traditions are not all good; as James Walker, a Black in Selma, Ala., tells him. "Ain't nothing changed." Nevertheless, throughout the book, we sense that small-town America, the way it was once known, is suffering its last gasp. Beyond each tree-lined ridge, across each mountain river, it seems, a dreaded red highway--an interstate carrying carloads of sightseers from New York and Ohio --stretches...
Discussing the scheme Wednesday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes added, "It ain't going to happen...
...AIN'T SO, HOWARD, wired Senator Robert Dole of Kansas to his Republican colleague from Tennessee, Majority Leader Howard Baker. Last week Baker refused either to confirm or to deny reports that he did not plan to run for re-election to the Senate in 1984. "I am in the process of trying to decide what my future will be," he said Saturday at the inaugural festivities for Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander...