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Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...
...poor black child will get a better education at the end of a bus ride than at home. Although the logistics of busing are formidable, the experience of Mobile and San Francisco shows that geography can be overcome in many areas. Things are back to normal too in Savannah, Ga., where antibusing mothers hanged School Board President Julian Halligan in effigy early in September. Of the nation's 51 largest cities, only 15 have a student population that is more than 50% black and Spanish-speaking. The major skepticism about busing involves big cities whose racial makeup allows no possibility...
...time loser at the time, Jackson had nothing to gain by his guilty plea. Allowing for inflation, Jackson's $3,000 price tag was less than he--19 years old, 6 feet, and a solid two hundred pounds--would have been worth on the slave blocks of Charleston, Savannah, or Richmond...
...Hurricanes, however, are notoriously unpredictable. After the first hurricane seeding attempt-Project "Cirrus" by a General Electric group in 1947-the storm suddenly reversed course and slammed into Savannah, Ga., wreaking extensive damage. Although the seeding probably had nothing to do with the change in course, Georgians were so outraged at the scientists that the Government has since forbidden any tampering with hurricanes that are within 18 hours' striking distance of land...
Beautiful Cumberland. One of the greatest environmental treasures remaining to the nation is the brief, marshy Georgia coastline between Savannah and St. Marys. The jewels of this region are the unusual "barrier islands" and particularly Cumberland Island, which was recently designated a national seashore area. There was good reason for preserving it. Wild horses...