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...Fishy Work Boat. When Williams tried to check into the financial records at the highway's headquarters on Pigeon Key, he was told by Toll District General Manager Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations...
...buildings to house city, state and Federal Government agencies now spread around the city; a 20,000-student branch of the University of Illinois; 5,000 apartments, a 6,000-auto parking area and a $15 million central-heating plant. Marked for destruction are such grey granite landmarks as pigeon-splattered city hall and the federal courthouse, to be replaced by small parks. Of 513 buildings in the main project area north of the winding Chicago River, only ten, including the huge Merchandise Mart and the American Medical Association headquarters, are classified as in "good" condition...
Just as he cannot be classified by school, neither can Gonzalez be pigeon holed according to subject matter or media (he uses oils, casein and watercolors). Says he: "Subject matter is unimportant. It is what you do with it that counts . . . I do not try to imitate nature but try to abstract from it what will serve to express a philosophy...
Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
...seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been...