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Down to the Sea. Oklahoma's Will Rogers once cracked: "When the Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated...
...body of a 34-year-old Negro man was found hanging by the heels Saturday outside an abandoned school house. The police identified the victim as E. C. Deloach, a fork lift operator on the Mobile docks...
...leader of West Germany's radical rightist National Democratic Party, cruised out of the airport and crunched his Mercedes 200D into a construction barricade. That boozy little episode has cost him a one-month suspended sentence; he had his license lifted for three months and had to fork over $556.25 in fines and $750 in repairs. But Bubi still has his wheels: he has hired a chauffeur to drive him around...
...fork of "liberalization" that is jabbing all of Communist Europe these days has two prongs: "Cultural Freedom" and "Political Liberty." It is easy in an advanced capitalist country to forget sometimes how closely inter-related the two are. European Communist reformers, however, have never lost sight of this close connection--indeed, they sometimes disguise their political struggles as cultural ones...
...began his most recent push ast month when he went to Miami to make his case at Rosenstiel's winter lome. His offer was one that not even Rosenstiel could turn down. For 945,000 Schenley shares owned or controlled by Rosenstiel, Riklis agreed that Glen Alden would fork over a cool 575 million-or $80 a share for stock hat had been trading for around $65. Last week, with the Rosenstiel stock in hand, Riklis was readying an offer, valued at $410 million, for the remaining Schenley stock...