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...Meridian, Miss...
...under way, their lawyers worried about how their clients would be treated by a jury made up of a bunch of New Yorkers who had almost certainly been influenced by newspaper and television reports of perjury and influence peddling. So the defense requested that the trial be removed to Meridian, Miss. "There are fewer network shows, fewer newspapers there." But the Mitchell-Stans lawyers surely knew that the wall-to-wall publicity surrounding Watergate has reached into Meridian. Thus their faintly facetious gesture seemed really to be raising a deeper and more disturbing question: Can any of the Watergate defendants...
Then there was Tom Stuart, mayor of Meridian, Miss., coming around with another of those petitions of support for Nixon. This one was signed by 20,000 persons. Such documents seem to grow on trees down South. They surface at the White House in every time of tension...
Sameness was not an enemy in convention hall. Gilbert Carmichael, who sells Volkswagens in Meridian, Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...