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Monroe, La., probably has not seen so much unction since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young...
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...
Much of the Cajuns' singular culture lingers on today, despite the invasion of their backwater over the past 30 years by public roads and private oil entrepreneurs. Gumbo and jambalaya still simmer on Cajun stoves and are dished up at local crawfish festivals (Rushton includes recipes for the adventurous). Men like James Daisy still rise at 3 a.m. to dredge for oysters: "Out there's where I live," he says of the endless marshes...
...year lab technician at the Kaiser plant, says he is optimistic about winning in the high court. If he does, he may become an even more important symbol than Allan Bakke. Unlike Bakke, who used to duck publicity, Weber says he doesn't mind "the notoriety." A loquacious Cajun and father of three who is fond of fishing, he likes to be photographed in his hard hat. In fact, Weber plans to go to Washington to hear his case argued in the Supreme Court's marble temple this winter. Says he: "I wouldn't miss...
Working out of his usual fast delivery, Guidry was unusually erratic, as he walked six batters in the opening six innings. But it was brilliant fielding by Nettles that saved "the ragin Cajun's" first series...