Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a sharecropper's abandoned cabin, Georgia's Taliaferro County has been quietly decaying for 30 years, until little is left but the shell. When the boll weevil destroyed the cotton crops of the '20s, the young people began to pull out and head for the cities. The population dropped from 8,841 in 1920 to 6,278 in 1940 to 3,370 today. It is falling still. Says Mrs. Grace Beazley, a county health worker: "Our families are just an old man and his wife sitting on the porch together...
Lady's cotton dress...
Fred Jones, 65, of Sunflower County, Miss., is a man of several parts: he is a prosperous Delta cotton planter, onetime director of the state's segregationist White Citizens' Council, and a reform-minded penologist. Several years ago, as a member of the Mississippi Senate and chairman of its penitentiary committee, he became dedicated to trying to make over the state prison at Parchman, a grim, swampy place noted for its liberal use of the lash. "I had a lot of ideas about prison reform," says Jones, "but they were either killed or watered down next to nothing...
...Drink & Be Merry. Jesse Unruh has come a long way from his boyhood on a cotton farm in Swenson, Texas (pop. 98). The Unruhs were hard-working sharecroppers. Nettie Unruh cut her three sons' hair all through high school, and when it came to buying clothes, all that the boys could expect were pants and shirts. ("Underwear," explains Jesse Unruh, "was just something to waste money on.") As a teenager, Jesse made his way to Los Angeles, got a job as a riveter at Douglas Aircraft. During World War II he served in Texas and the Aleutians...
Square Spiral. In the Indian cotton center of Ahmedabad he built two graceful villas, an office building for the Mill-owners Association, and finally the "endless museum" he had thought of 30 years before. Its plan, which was to be repeated in Tokyo, was a sort of square spiral or maze that could be expanded at will. Today he is still working on his biggest commission of all: Chandigarh, the capital of the Punjab. The Indian government hired Corbu for 4,000 rupees ($840; a month to build a whole new city to replace the old Lahore, which had been...