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...many Hispanics have moved to Whitfield County in the past several years, it's standing room only at St. Joseph's. Carl Bouckaert, a parishioner and the owner of Beaulieu of America carpets, could not help noticing. Thirty percent of his work force of 7,500 (soon to be expanded to 10,000) is Hispanic...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...weighted nets over the sea floor to catch shrimp and ground feeders like cod, hake, haddock, halibut and flounder. In the process, the nets haul up everything in their path, contributing heavily to the nearly 30 million tons of damaged or dying "bycatch" that fishermen toss overboard each year. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society calls it "scorched earth fishing...
Before him there was only Bobby Vinton. Well, no, not really. But at the time Dylan first arrived in New York City from the Midwest, rock music had lost its leader--Elvis, in a series of movie musicals. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson--all those pioneers Dylan had loved and emulated in high school rock-'n'-roll bands--had been superseded by a series of well-scrubbed teen idols who had as much edge as a corsage...
...fact, when all this came to mind last week, I thought about trying to find Carl DeRose, the way the sportswriters immediately got on to Don Larsen, who had pitched the only other perfect game in Yankee Stadium. On my phone-directory website, I found several people by that name. Carl DeRose might be thrilled to hear from someone who had been there. On the other hand, he might say, "Sure you were," or "Give me a break." I couldn't take the chance...