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...Nation imagines what might happen if the mostly African-American residents of East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
Bush's ancestors were patrician New Englanders. But he has bought property in a forgotten part of Texas off a small state highway west of Waco that isn't on the way to or from anywhere of note. The land is rolling blackland prairie used to pasture Hereford cattle or grow corn or wheat. It has a nice view across miles of fields and pastures. Unlike Johnson, Bush makes no pretense that the ranch will be a working enterprise. He says he'll spend his time there reading or walking with Laura or doing chores around the property. In other...
...Fareek will do to his reputation: "Who could he look in the face after that? Who of all the people he had entertained at Turpmtine would ever come again? On the other hand, if he refused--then suppose he lost Turpmtine, lost everything he had, including his house on Blackland Road--was wiped out! demolished!--the result would be the same, wouldn't it! No one would come to visit him then, either...
...these letters from readers re the previous week's covers. You're good and you do some remarkable things, but you do not control the U.S. mail delivery. I received TIME, June 21, with Bobby Kennedy on the cover June 19. I'll bet you a blackland farm that you cannot get this letter in next week's issue [June...
...thriving and beautiful city, probably near the 50,000 mark in population (including Negroes). Although the place is -* with Christians, transcontinental travelers, U. S. Highway 77, Canada to Mexico, need not hesitate to stop overnight, as a very good quality of roasting ear juice, distilled in the lush, dewy blackland river bottoms of Central Texas, is procurable at a fair price. R. E. VOOHNMAD Oklahoma City, Okla. Kentuckiana...
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