Word: creeks
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When not at home or church or school (where the children, all of them white, prayed daily), Helms seems to have lived one gamboling, summery pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines...
DIED. Lowell Thomas, 89, prolific journalist and pioneering broadcast commentator; of a heart attack; in Pawling, N.Y. Born in Woodington, Ohio, Thomas wrote for newspapers in Cripple Creek and Denver, Colo. In 1924 he published his first and most popular book, With Lawrence in Arabia. A flood of more than 50 titles followed. Beginning in 1930, Thomas combined the roles of globetrotter and radio network broadcaster with élan and energy. He hunted tigers in India, covered virtually every battlefront in World War II, and in 1949 met with the Dalai Lama in Tibet. Thomas began a new radio show...
...Pont, the planned acquisition of Conoco is a daring departure. The 179-year-old firm, which started as a gunpowder business on the banks of Delaware's Brandy wine Creek, now sells everything from synthetic fibers and insecticides to cookware coatings and auto paints. But for the company that invented nylon and Teflon, growth has come mainly from in-house research and innovation rather than conglomerate building. The addition of Conoco would more than double Du Pont's size, and some Wall Street analysts fear that the new colossus would lose some technological drive. Says John Henry...
...helping to defend Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; in New York City. Berman first came to national attention in 1956, when he defended a Marine sergeant who was court-martialed for the drowning of six young recruits during a disciplinary march through a tidal creek at Parris Island, S.C. While representing Sirhan, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1969, Berman explained: "I'm not defending his crime, only his rights...
Mitchell Samples came out of Strange Creek, W. Va. The son of a coal miner, he is not the sort of man to question an order to report to his draft board...