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Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just the right blend of John Wayne and Herb Shriner. And Writer Tom Blackburn has invented a Crockett filled with engaging crotchets: when first encountered, Davy is deep in the piney woods taking time off from Indian-fighting to try to "grin" a bear into submission. This budding effort at psychological warfare fails, and Davy needs a knife to subdue the critter. Throughout the picture, the heroic act is never far removed from the owlish legpull: when Crockett comes prancing into...
Switzerland's Jacques LaLive de Piney reported plans for a $7,000,000 reactor (using five tons of uranium, eight tons of heavy water), to be ready...
...piney woods of East Texas, deer hunting is a way of life. The natives, hard, stern men, pursue deer after their own local, brutal fashion, behind powerful, lop-eared hounds. "Five, ten miles ain't no area for a big deer to carry the dogs," drawls R. C. Pace, former sheriff of Jasper County. "Once I had one run twelve hours. You can go a long way in twelve hours...
...This Is Your Life last fortnight, Host Ralph Edwards appealed to his audience to send a million dollars to Dr. Laurence Jones, founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 27). In the first four days, nearly $150,000 poured into Piney Woods. By this week the total had risen to $500,000, and letters were still arriving...