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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...
...MAYOR) SEABORN CRAVEY Baytown, Texas...
...astronaut as director for other than promotional reasons," said a NASA memo on the subject. But Commander Alan Shepard, 39, saw no difficulty, announced that he and two Texas businessmen were putting up $1,300,000 for 1,800 (of 2,000) shares in the First National Bank of Baytown, Texas, near the abuilding Manned Spacecraft Center. NASA officials finally gave Shepard permission to go ahead, but stopped plans for the other astronauts to get in on the deal. Shepard's name, added NASA, could not be used in connection with the bank except on the business letterhead...
...sort who loves his wife, has two teen-aged children and seems affably adjusted to failure. He clerks in a grocery store that he once owned for a Sicilian-born boss named Marullo. However, Ethan is haunted by totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with its widow's walk. It hurts Ethan when his son pipes...
...illegally, and he tips off the immigration authorities. The unsuspecting Marullo, who admires Ethan for his loyalty, gives him the store before he is deported. Author Steinbeck has other heavy ironies to put in the moral fire, and at book's end, Ethan owns the world of New Baytown but he has, of course, lost his own soul. How does he learn that? He discovers that his son has cribbed from the speeches of Jefferson, Webster, Lincoln and Henry Clay to win a nationwide TV essay contest...