Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
...company spent more than $200 million last year in stepped-up onshore exploration in the U.S. It also paid $314 million last June to acquire twelve drilling tracts in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf spent $400 million to $500 million to build its Cedar Bayou ethylene plant near Houston; it opened last year but, say industry sources, has never operated at more than 60% of capacity, causing a substantial drain on Gulfs petrochemical earnings. Gulf also acquired for $455 million Kewanee Industries, a specialty chemical firm. In all, the company's 1977 capital spending came to $3 billion, much more...
...badly bruised that duty officers refused to book him. They told the arresting officers to take Torres to Ben Taub General Hospital for treatment. Instead, six policemen drove him one mile to an area known as "the Hole," behind a large warehouse facing the muddy Buffalo Bayou that winds through the city. There, according to subsequent testimony, they pushed Torres off a 20-ft. dock into the bayou. His body was discovered two days later, floating in 15ft. of water...
...more oldies also receive excellent treatment on the album--a country ballad from Roy Orbison (one of Elvis's teenage idols) called "Blue Bayou," and the old Jagger-Richard standby, Tumbling Dice. The Stones version is, of course, the best, but it its interesting to hear it sung by a woman. In fact, this cut may be the best on the album. The remaining seven songs on the album (which total up to a mere 32 minutes of music - those record companies really bleed you dry) further demonstrate Ronstadt's recently-found maturity. They range from mediocre, like "Maybe...
...murder, but if six policemen beat up a drunk Mexican and throw him into the river, it's a misdemeanor." Foreman is representing the family of Joe Campos Torres 23, whom police picked up in a barroom brawl, then beat senseless and tossed into the Buffalo Bayou. Police Chief B.G ("Pappy") Bond arrested one of the officers in the Torres murder but stoutly denies wrongdoing by his men in numerous other killings. Insists Dick DeGuerin, president of the local criminal-lawyers' association: "The mentality in this force is that we are the cops and the law and whatever...