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...birds (California, Texas and Florida), followed by forays onto the big-time birding circuit: southeast Arizona for Mexican specialties, the Dry Tortugas for noddies and boobies, Alaska for arctic and Asian species. The final step is the long trip to see a single bird: Michigan for Kirtland's warbler, Calcasieu County in Louisiana for the black francolin, a grueling five-mile trek up the Chisos Mountains in Texas for the Colima warbler...
...parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called, by one and all, the Firing Line...
...torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand-me-down overalls. "My brothers are dead," he said quietly. "We don't know where daddy is." Haggard Dr. Cevil Clark, Cameron's only physician, trudged doggedly along muddy streets, giving shots...
Defamed. All U.S. newsmen had taken such rights for granted. Dixon and his men learned otherwise when they began printing the facts about corruption in Calcasieu Parish. They stirred a citizens' committee into gathering evidence against 33 gambling house proprietors. But in court the gamblers got off with light fines and suspended jail sentences, although usually such treatment is given only to first offenders...
...gamblers' records; the evidence indicated that he had done just that. As the judge read on, the startled sheriff and district attorney stalked angrily out of court. Editor Ken Dixon had not only won his battle in court. Since the case started, gambling has been closed tight in Calcasieu Parish...