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...Marshes. The biggest waterway customer of all is the booming Gulf Coast oil industry, which last year shipped out some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their...
...local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell, it ain't a matter of wanting...
...registered since Emperor Napoleon III learned the breast stroke there in mid-eigteenth century, it has remained France's most fashionable resort as a result of diligent handling by 42-year-old François André, France's biggest hotel operator. In addition to owning Deauville lock, stock and wine barrel, André owns the casinos, two hotels at Cannes and two hotels at La Baule as well as the biggest hotel at Le Touquet...
Spectator Sport. In Chicago, after detectives uncovered a .44-caliber revolver, 100 bullets, eleven daggers, three switchblade knives, lock-picking tools, a lock puller and a tear-gas gun in the back of his car, Harry Owens explained: "My hobby is shooting. I throw daggers and knives to amuse myself. I studied locksmithing, and I like to watch people...
...glaciers would not grow indefinitely. After a few ten thousands of years, they would lock up so much of the ocean's water that sea level all over the world would fall. Communication between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans would be reduced, so that less warm water could flow northward over the "sill" between Norway and Greenland. Deprived of warmth, the Arctic Ocean would freeze over. The great continental glaciers, deprived of snowfall, would waste slowly away, restoring their water to the oceans. Then the level of the sea would rise. Warm Atlantic water would flow freely into...