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...beyond the runway and apparently never rose more than 150 ft. into the air. "It didn't seem to be able to get up," said Mike Scardino, who was driving nearby. Two miles east of the airport, Evelyn Pourciau looked up at the sky from her neighborhood of Kenner, a middle-class suburb of one-story brick houses. "I saw the belly of it," she said about the 727. "It was spitting and popping like it couldn't get the motor running." Watching in horror, other residents saw the 727's left wing tilt toward the ground...
...week war of nerves began, while everyone wondered: Would the city capitulate in time for Mardi Gras Day? One by one the parade dates came around and the floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
Heymann gives us a profile of the poet/man, and in many ways it is deficient. It doesn't try to clean up the mess that has surrounded Pounds life, the almost inscrutable clusters of prose that make up Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, the incomplete information in Charles Norman's biography, published in 1960, 12 years before Pound's death or Noel stock's The Life of Ezra Pound, completed two years before the poet died. But for all of its problems, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower provides us with one particularly important piece of information. That at least...
Then silence "fell," as Heymann puts it, not quite as conveniently as it descended on Pound in Kenner's book, or as it seemed to pervade Pound's later life in Stock's biography...
Nonetheless, three doctors have now volunteered to do the surgery, and Judge Woodworth, at least, seems satisfied. Last week he delayed the sentencing until the castrations are actually performed. It is either "this operation or the ultimate castration of locking a man up for life," says the judge. Kenner, 45, has declined to talk, but De la Haye is voluble about his choice. "Look, I'm 47 and don't have a wife," said the widower. "So I don't have much of a sex life to look forward to when I get out. Sure...