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...folksiness to the future. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) imagines the year 2002 and a hero whose dreams become reality. Along with the fantasies, Le Guin textures her tales with poetic leaps. When a jellyfish is flung on the beach, she writes, "What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur who regards her craft as a pastime. Early on, the Fulbright scholar decided on fiction as a career. Says...
...Seadrift Bar. St. Petersburg Beach...
Looking for some peace and quiet? Cross Boca Ciega Bay to St. Petersburg Beach, take a left at the Don Cesar hotel (the big pink thing) and drive about four miles down Pass-A-Grille Way. There on your left, is The Seadrift. Break through the cobwebs and walk inside Look empty? It should. They haven't had a paying customer in months. The pinball machines are the old pachinko kind, the beer on tap is Rheingold, and the walls are decorated with old Washington Senators pennants. If you've had enought of tourists no, make that any kind...
...worst incident so far occurred last month in Seadrift, Texas (pop. 1,000), where some 120 Vietnamese had settled to work in crab processing plants. The Vietnamese rapidly saved up enough money to buy their own fishing boats. American fishermen accused them of undercutting market prices and of violating longstanding "gentlemen's agreements," like keeping crab traps a suitable distance from those of competitors...
...industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...