Word: bayou
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Most steel mills are heavy polluters of air and water. So the residents of Baytown, Texas, were understandably aghast when U.S. Steel acquired 15,000 acres for a new plant right next to Cedar Bayou, a valued local fish and wildlife refuge. Now the new plant, known as Texas Works, has been officially opened after six months of operation at one-third capacity. To the delight of all, it appears to be a model of enlightened industry-the first steel mill ever to make an effort to be clean clear through...
Half of that is used to replace evaporated water; the other 5 million gallons are filtered, cooled and drained off into the bayou. But even that water, boasts Mill Superintendent Harry Spitz, is cleaner than when it first comes into the plant-50 parts per million of various undissolved solids v. 150 p.p.m. in the original water supply. Sludge is removed from the water daily, is treated with thickeners and used as landfill...
...Texas Works went into pollution controls. To install such complete controls in older plants, the company adds, would be prohibitively expensive. Though local conservationists are pleased, they are waiting to see if full production and long-term activity cause unforeseen problems. Meanwhile, bass fishing is still good in the bayou, and U.S. Steel appears to have demonstrated that industry may no longer be able to say that it can't be done...
...Young). Elton John is an English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer of the day. Van Morrison, an Irishman late of Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings...
Died. Cid Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home...