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...inching across the northern part of the state. Long a dream of the Army Corps of Engineers, the 107-mile waterway will link Jacksonville on the Atlantic with Yankeetown on the Gulf of Mexico. The $177 million project is being heralded by the Army as a major economic asset for the state...
...black movement today is fractionalized. Many blacks would argue that it always has been, but that the condition is now more readily recognized by all blacks as a positive asset. Strongly linked by a fierce pride in their very blackness and by outrage at continued white racism, the movement's leaders are pursuing progress on many highly specialized fronts. More than in the past, the assault on inequality, the use of black pride and power, is taking place on the local community level. The lack of national voices makes the decibel level of black protest seem lower. Actually, the many...
...more than 6,000,000 miles of wear, made its through-run for the last time. Latest victim of rising costs, declining patronage and the reluctance of railroads to promote passenger service, the train was, as one member of the Interstate Commerce Commission termed it, "a unique national asset." Rolling for 2,525 miles through some of the U.S.'s most scenic and historic terrain, the Cal Zephyr afforded a view of America which new generations, hurtling along billboarded freeways or locked inside pressurized plane cabins, may never see. With that in mind, Associate Editor Ray Kennedy and Correspondent...
These moments of potency, though, cannot cover up the fact this show neither moves nor capitalizes on its greatest asset, the score, (Only Andre Bishop's psychiatry song is captured with the bravura Weill's music requires.) It is nice that the Loeb has gone to the trouble to revive Johnny Johnson, but how could they forget that it was only the music that caused them to remember this forgotten show in the first place...
Leftfielders. Ambitious sons of famous fathers are hardly unique in politics. With personality continuing to outweigh party loyalty as a political asset, an increasing number of candidates are emerging from leftfield to give voters surprising options. Some examples...