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...Bakersfield, Calif...
...Didion again collects clippings of American death trips: the brothers who bludgeoned Ramon Novarro, for example; and the 26-year-old woman who put her five-year-old daughter out to die on the center divider of Interstate 5 some miles south of the last Bakersfield exit; the child's fingers had to be pried loose from the Cyclone fence when she was rescued twelve hours later by the California Highway Patrol...
...valley. The study suggests using it as the basis of an even larger network. Underground drain pipes would carry salty water from individual farms to larger collection drains, which in turn would link up to a main 10-ft.-deep concrete viaduct. From its starting point, near Bakersfield, the viaduct would convey the salty water 290 miles away to Suisun...
...Away Eyes" is pure fun, as Jagger and Richard do a hokey country ballad about a truckstop girl "with far away eyes" in Bakersfield, California. Jagger's satire of radio preachers is particularly humorous. The album closes with "Shattered," a wierd soliloquy on the perils of New York, which Jagger talks-sings over a murky riff. Jagger sums up life as "laughter, joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex," and gloats ironically, "Look at me, I been shattered...
...most polarized delegation was the 280-member California contingent, bitterly split between Carter and Brown. Jessica Govea, 29, a Chicana union organizer from Bakersfield, was gung-ho for Jerry Brown largely because he had pushed through the nation's first collective bargaining law covering farm workers. She perceives Carter as too sympathetic to Big Agribusiness, but, if he makes a "gesture" toward the United Farm Workers, would work for him against Reagan and probably against Ford...