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About the only surviving landmark from Nixon's past is the tiny clapboard house where he was born in Yorba Linda, Calif., still the worn residence of a school maintenance man. For now, that house is about as distant as it can be. Watching Nixon with a new four-year charter in his hand and his voice ringing out over the Capitol Plaza, one had to wonder if the President would not always outrace the past...
Although both Gulf and Texaco are enormously wealthy and their refineries at Port Arthur are the city's main industry, neither company has made any substantial effort to improve conditions in the black community. Many blacks in Port Arthur live in run-down one-story clapboard buildings on the outskirts of town while the downtown area toward the new Jefferson City shopping center sparkles with modern Gulf and Texaco stations at nearly every other corner, like alternate squares on some garish checkerboard...
...moonshiner's community, coal smoke rises in thin gray wisps from stovepipes that jut through corrugated roofs. The houses are mostly unpainted clapboard decorated with weathered old Camel and Chesterfield signs; many are on stilts. The yards are strewn with empty cans, bottles, cartons, boxes. Chickens peck around them and in the meager patches of corn and tobacco plants. At the moonshiner's cabin, the approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit...
Attica (pop. 2,900) is in Wyoming County, in the heart of New York's productive farm belt, lush with acres of sweet corn and rolling green hills. Red barns and tall silver silos sit fat amidst fields of goldenrod and purple wild flowers. Along Route 98, small, white clapboard farmhouses ringed with zinnias and neatly clipped lawns are spaced with the regularity of mileposts. Route 98 cuts from north to south and connects the New York State Thru way with Attica about twelve miles to the south...
...Buffalo and the lure of markets (and profits) made available by the Thruway. There are old, elm-shaded Victorian homes hard by one and two story frame houses of no particular distinction; in the commercial district the new Citizens' Bank, done in businesslike red-brick modern, contrasts with the clapboard charm of Timm's Hardware. Attica has a variety of fraternal, youth and religious organizations, in addition to seven churches, all well attended on Sundays. The only movie theater, though, closed its doors a few years ago for lack of business. In normal times the most popular pastime is cheering...