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...agents who moved swiftly into the case, the utter senselessness of such a murder was in itself an important clue. They did not have to dig far to discover that Athens is a center of activities for one of the most senseless organizations imaginable: the Ku Klux Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers...
...have to build a high, strong fence, but he may also also pay higher property taxes. To prevent disease and pressure on local sewers, he may be forced to install a costly pump that recirculates his water every 18 hours. To save town water, he may be required to dig his own well...
...Sheppard ("a mockery of justice") with such editorial outbursts as GET THAT KILLER (TiME, July 24). For their part, newsmen refuse to surrender the right of the press to alert and inform the public. Though they may err on the side of sensationalism, their job is al ways to dig out all the facts. The Constitution, after all, guarantees a free press just as firmly as it does due process. The tough problem here, as it frequently is in the law, is to balance both cherished values...
Putting down the line is the hardest and costliest part of pipelining; in rough terrain it can cost $150,000 a mile, always requires many pieces of special machinery to dig the ditches and successfully lay the pipe. But once in place, pipelines are impervious to weather and immune to strikes, operate day and night with rare breakdowns and only occasional pumping station overhauls. They eliminate the costly necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk...
...buses, fire engines-why shouldn't they be in pictures?" asks Venetian-born Marina Stern. Though this follows the logic of pop art, she denies that she is a pop artist: "Pop art accepts everything. I'm more of a satirist. I like to get a little dig in. What pop art has done is to release all of us to be playful. Abstract expressionism is so serious. Two years ago I wouldn't have dared to make paintings like these, and no gallery would have dared to show them...