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...Delta also yielded a great harvest of blues singers, spawned in the sorrow of the sharecroppers' shotgun shacks (so called because the rooms are one behind the other, allowing a shot fired through the front door to sail straight out the back door -- unless something gets in the way). Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James ("Son") Thomas -- most of modern American music has its roots in the Delta. Big Jack ("the Oil Man") Johnson plays there now, one of many with more coming on, including his nephew, James ("Super Chicken") Johnson...
...mammoth promotion. Nationwide, each of the church's 7,291 elementary schools and 1,296 high schools will be asked to market an array of buttons, T shirts, pins, decals, posters, videos and banners that bear the logo of a proud galleon slicing through the waves, its sail emblazoned with a giant cross. Kits will be sold that instruct local administrators on how to place ads, write press releases and choreograph a month-by-month promotional campaign. Says Sister Ann Dominic Roach, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Boston: "This is not business as usual...
...merit a hanging. But if one judges civilizations by what they have taken from and what they have given the world, a nonjaundiced observer -- say, one of the millions in Central Europe and Asia whose eyes are turned with hope toward America -- would surely bless the day Columbus set sail...
...owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
...cloudless Friday afternoon, several thousand servicemen gathered at Travis Air Force Base northeast of San Francisco to welcome back 430 crewmen from the U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...