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...Baton Rouge...
...Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University of Wisconsin and $100 million to have a Navy minesweeper built in his home state...
...time? Flutists and cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under the baton of Illustrator Marc Simont, every player is treated as an individual and set wittily on the pages like notes on a staff of Mozartean melody...
...Sept. 28, a 101-car Illinois Central Gulf freight train carrying some dozen esoteric and highly dangerous chemicals derailed in Livingston, La. Though no one was injured, the ensuing explosion and chemical fires forced the evacuation of 2,800 residents. In Baton Rouge, La., last week, a preliminary hearing conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that there may have been another dangerous, if less esoteric, substance on board the train that day: bourbon...
According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...