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...flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where his mother lives, that Erskine Caldwell wrote Tobacco Road -and he might have been inspired by the setting, if not the climate...
Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel was justly outraged. The recent Gulf of Mexico oil fiasco, during which a cluster of twelve offshore wells owned by Chevron Oil Co. blazed for a month, has caused even greater repercussions than last year's Santa Barbara debacle. Beyond oil, Louisiana's largest industries are shrimp and oysters, and the rich Gulf of Mexico beds may have been irreparably damaged by the spill. Scientific tests conducted at Woods Hole, Mass., last week produced the first solid evidence that oil pollution can disrupt the life cycles of marine creatures...
...races through Iowa and Nebraska. In the cities, the tracks are rimmed by hulking warehouses, rusting automobile graveyards and smoking garbage dumps. Then, gradually, such signs as ROYAL KNITTING MILLS and BOECKER COAL & GRAIN, SINCE 1898 give way to BEER 10? SHOT 25? and COOP FEED. Suddenly, after a cluster of mobile homes, the train plunges into a great open expanse of farm lands...
...Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel was appalled. After inspecting 50 sq. mi. of oil slicks off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, he called the spill a "disaster" and started a federal crackdown on the cause-a cluster of twelve offshore oil wells belonging to Chevron Oil Co. A month ago they caught fire. The blaze was snuffed out last week. But as high seas prevented capping the wells, thousands of barrels of brown crude oil started to gush into the water, posing a threat to the Louisiana coast's wildlife refuges and rich oyster beds. Fortunately the slicks...
Addressing a rally of some 30 Cambridge tenants and a cluster of student supporters outside Grays Hall, Louis Agneta, chairman of the Cambridge Housing Convention and a member of the tenant delegation said. "We oppose Harvard's housing plan because its emphasis on middle-income and luxury housing will only hasten the process of turning Cambridge into a one-class city...