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...strains of it persist in the rural America where Patman has his roots. He was born in Patman's Switch,* Texas, the son of a struggling farmer. He earned enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present home, he so energetically attacked vice and gambling during the 1920s that a squad of Texas Rangers was sent to protect him from underworld assassins...
General Mills, General Foods and other major food processors that have extensive low-calorie lines will most likely change to some other sweetener. "The public will continue to look for other diet products rather than return to sugar products," says Marvin Eisenstadt, an official of Cumberland Packing Corp., producers of Sweet 'N Low, a sugar substitute made of saccharin and a cyclamate. It is unlikely, however, that dieters will switch to saccharin, since it often leaves a bitter taste. Obviously a big pot of sugar awaits the inventor who can formulate a new product that is safe, sweet...
...Kentucky's Red River Gorge, a 15-mile stretch of primeval beauty bordered by 600-ft. limestone cliffs, is known as the Grand Canyon of the East. Daniel Boone is supposed to have holed up there, and the surrounding national forest bears his name. Carved out of the Cumberland Plateau, it is an almost otherworldly wonderland of castle rock formations, soaring pinnacles and natural arches. It is also a refuge for some 50 species of mammals and 275 species of birds...
...brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says. He can shout good and loud and I'm satisfied that's the best kind...
Last week those fears were put to rest by Cumberland County Judge Clinton R. Weidner, who ruled not only that Stevens' book is accurate and protected as free speech-but also that Stevens was actually too polite to Tycoon Frick. If his daughter were upheld, said Judge Weidner, "our bookshelves would be either empty or contain books written only by relatives of the subject." He added: "Miss Frick might as well try to enjoin publication and distribution of the Holy Bible because, being a descendant of Eve, she does not believe that Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit...