Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mound Bayou, Miss...
...children to some of the nation's finest suburban public schools, owned a ten-room house filled with costly art objects. But he felt that he should be treating poor instead of rich patients. Now Kruger has quit Newton, moved to the Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost Kruger $15,000 of his own money, partly for the two trailers in which his family live on a muddy road at the edge of town. His wife earns...
Benny Boudreaux, 40, from the bayou country of Louisiana, lost the use of his legs from an injury to his spinal cord in an auto crash while he was in the Air Force. Like most of the 1 00,000 U.S. paraplegics (both legs disabled) and quadriplegics (both arms and legs disabled), Boudreaux was constantly prey to excruciating decubitus ulcers, better known as bedsores. In the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis, he was condemned to lie in bed, face down, so no bony prominences could cause pressure and ulcers...
...flower? A ring? A baby? The big summer mystery, the question that resounds from Boston to the Bayou is: What did Billie Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Anatomy of Pop: The Music Explosion" attempts to find a link between today's popular sounds and the music of the Louisiana bayou folk and the Negro spiritualists. Film units traveled from New York to New Orleans, Nashville and Detroit to tune in the Supremes, Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington. Repeat...