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...nowhere near as severe as expected. In south Texas cities, streets were strewn with uprooted trees, downed power lines and splintered billboards. But most buildings were still standing. Torrential rains of 15 to 20 inches caused serious flooding in central Texas and destroyed some $400 million in crops, especially cotton. But the downpour also brought desperately needed moisture after a month-long drought...
That sound, coarsely textile as the water-tight cotton cover of Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using), has been replaced with one more metallic alloying steel and electronic instrumentation. This amalgamation of disco, cowboy rock, and R&B maintains a measure of continuity with the recent albums, aided perhaps by the continued presence of engineer Greg Ladanyi and several hold-overs from The Section, including David Lindley. Lindley's fiddle, alas, has no place in the new sound: Bill Payne, with the electronic organ heard out across the wilderness of "Your Bright Baby Blues" is a more likely Pied Piper...
...hurtin' real bad in Texas," said State Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown. The Lone Star State so far has lost more than 1 million broilers and 50,000 breeder hens. Egg production has dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...
...primaries, and New Jersey. All six states are elements in what Reagan's aides call his "redundancy" strategy. This means that Reagan will campaign hard in more states than he needs to win the election?in contrast to Ford's 1976 "big-state" strategy, in which he conceded the cotton South to Carter, made only a pass at the Border states and concentrated on the Midwest, a tactic that may have cost him the election...
Born in the Maine fac tory town of Lewiston in 1877, he was the youngest of nine children of a poor English-born cotton spinner. His mother died when he was eight, and the family dispersed. His father remarried and moved to Cleveland, where Marsden eventually joined him. "I had a childhood vast with terror and surprise," he wrote later. Shy and insecure, he began to paint. He received a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, where he so impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes...