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Although there clearly is a danger that they may be turning off sympathizers, militant gays are convinced that their vendetta against Bryant has helped this movement, and regard last June's defeat in Dade County as their Alamo. Since then, the homosexuals' drive for civil rights has become increasingly active and confident. There have also been sporadic acts of harassment directed against other figures whom the gays see as their current enemies...
...those farms belongs to Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Robert Meyer, whose family owns or leases 2,100 Imperial Valley acres. Like his neighbors, Meyer believed the valley was exempt from the 1902 law because local farmers had built their own 50-mile Alamo Canal to irrigate their fields in 1901, a year before the Government offered to help out. When a federal court disagreed last August-after an eleven-year legal battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial...
Walter Lord has told his readers what it was like to go down with the Titanic (A Night to Remember), to fight at the Alamo (A Time to Stand) and to wake to the World War II overture one Honolulu morning in 1941 (Day of Infamy). As a popular chronicler of historic days and nights, the bestselling author relies heavily on eyewitness accounts from participants and survivors. Incredible Victory, his narrative of the Battle of Midway, crackled with aging voices from both sides. For Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three...
There are dragon ladies breathing fire on the stage of Broadway's Martin Beck Theater. Paul Zindel has conceived of a raw, strident all-woman power struggle for control of a regional theater called the "Alamo" in Texas City, Texas. The bitchy confrontations in his play make the feline spats in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women sound like the popping of ladyfingers...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...