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...mile trip usually takes six to ten days, depending on the traffic at the 26 locks and dams along the way. This time the floating entourage did not reach its destination. A sudden blast of arctic air froze sections of the Mississippi solid, trapping 'the barges near Keokuk, Iowa. Sighs Tom Michael, Cooperative Vanguard 's engineer: "Every time I look out, there's the same...
...stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens of thousands of fish (speckled trout and redfish) died in 38° water...
Along the way, the reader can enjoy MacDonald's acid descriptions of the Sunbelt boneyards and debate his bleak editorial: given the depredations of the bulldozer, if there is a golden age in America it is far more likely to be enjoyed in Keokuk than in Fort Lauderdale...
...travel from New York to Keokuk is getting harder," observes Cessna's Meyer. Keokuk, however, is precisely the kind of place where many executives need to go, as corporations decentralize operations. J. Lynn Helms, president of Piper, based in Lock Haven, Pa., tells of executives of an Ohio company who had to visit a plant in Mississippi several times a week. Their door-to-door travel time was reduced from eleven hours to 3½ hours after the company began flying them direct in its own Piper...
Dozens of reporters invaded his modest ranch house in Auburn. Telegrams from Senators, Representatives and ordinary citizens came in by the hundreds. One man from Keokuk, Iowa, called to say that Longley had given him new inspiration to run as an independent next time round. Longley, who called his one-candidate party "Longley for Maine," had engineered the surprise of the entire election, seeming in the process to carry to the ultimate the trend toward rejection of the party professional...