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HOUSTON, TEXAS -- To most Houstonians, Wheeler Street means only one thing: Negro. Like Dowling, West Dallas, Gray, and Elgin, Wheeler is one of the main arteries of Black Houston. As with the others, traffic on Wheeler is heavy throughout the day, and during rush hours, it is often bumper-to-bumper. But for the last month, Wheeler, in the five-block vicinty of Houston's predominantly Negro Texas Southern University, has been transformed. The first sign of trouble came one day last month, when Wheeler was filled with people, some three to four hundred chanting and singing T.S.U. students...
Finally, there were the rookies; and their flirtation with fame may very well end as soon as the pitchers throw them a few "jugs"-curves. But so far, at least, the 1967 harvest looks like a bumper crop...
Seley fell in love with his first bumper in 1956. Waiting for his car to be fixed in a junkyard adjoining a garage, he and his wife were struck by the distinctive shape of a '49 Buick Dyna-flow bumper. Convinced that there was still more "beauty to be extracted from it," he bought it for $1 -much to the amazement of the garage owner, since the Seleys' car was a Chevvy. Seley, who at the time was casting Henry Mooreish semi-abstracts in plaster and terra cotta, began using bumpers as armatures, covering them with plaster, then...
...Bumper Crop. Garrison immediately proclaimed him "one of history's most important individuals" and said that he would have arrested him this week. The District Attorney, Ferrie had told reporters, believed that he had been the getaway pilot for Lee Harvey Oswald's coconspirators. What was Garrison's evidence? He refused to say, but-in what must rank as one of the most brilliant non sequiturs of the year -referred to a pleasure trip that Ferrie had made to southern Texas a few hours after the assassination: "We felt that it was rather peculiar that...
Whatever else it may do, the probe into the assassination has already garnered a bumper crop of publicity for Jim Garrison. Reporters from all over the U.S. and Europe converged on New Orleans, soon to be joined by the assassination buffs who have haunted Dallas for more than three years. From most indications, Garrison's whodunit casts Cubans, both pro-and anti-Castro, as the heavies. But he was not talking any more-no more, that is, than it took to keep his name in the papers...