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Fans call him the "Ragin' Cajun" and "Louisiana Lightnin'." By any other name he is Ron Guidry, the best pitcher in baseball-and the best known of that group of 900,000 French-speaking Louisianians, descendants of French farmer-fishermen, who live in the bayou country south and west of New Orleans. Except for Guidry's left arm, Cajuns are known mostly by hearsay. They are reputed to play strange-sounding accordion music, make a mean gumbo, and generally be as colorful as the crawfish in their bayous. The rumors are right, as Journalist William Rushton demonstrates...
Louisiana's Bayou Bodcau. An $18 million project largely intended to control flooding in 20,000 acres of the state's northwestern bayou country would only benefit about 150 landowners now living there. The cost would be $100,000 per family...
Perhaps Ronstadt's strength, because of the power her voice can deliver, lies in the driving rockers. She is sweet in her quietest moments, but even her best slow ballads, like "Desperado" and "Blue Bayou" derive their beauty from the brassy crescendoes which bolster the tunes. On Living in the U.S.A., a song like "Just One Look," one of the weaker compositions before Ronstadt's touches, comes off fairly well because it gives Ronstadt a chance to belt out the lyrics. And that energetic vocal thrust, hardly what you'd expect from a shy, playful, innocent-looking singer who stands...
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...