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...tried-and-true middle of the road soft rock--but he does an exciting job with what he sings. Womack also has a terrific soul revue, including a huge band and three female backup singers, one of whom is sometimes Pam Grier, Rosie's sister. At the Sugar Shack all weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...Baby Doe refused to remarry-or rather, she remained faithful to the Matchless. For the next 30 years, she wooed lenders and lawyers, fought off creditors and dug relentlessly into her mine. To no avail. Finally, on March 7, 1935, she was found frozen to death in a mountain shack beside the shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Top of Old Matchless | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...really got to Fairntosh was along the narrow black road dropping steeply down and then straightening out across a flat stretch of swampy forest where at the end of the day a rich odor of bacon cooking came drifting from some nearby shack or trailer. "They've got it fixed up real pretty," said the man we asked for directions, "with them long white fences goin up the hill and the house is hid in the trees...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Some Houses Down There | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

Expelling Beggars. Nonetheless, the shack villages of the real Indonesia, where the majority of the country's 125 million people live, start only a few short blocks away. Roughly 35% of the country's work force of 39 million is unemployed, and every year the number increases by 1,400,000. In the capital, the government has invoked measures to deal with poverty. Four years ago officials declared that Jakarta was "a closed city to all future jobless settlers." Ever since, trainloads of beggars and unemployed city dwellers have been expelled and sent back to the provinces from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Retaliation and Reform | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

EDDIE KENDRICKS--Though Sun. Jan. 27 at Sugar Shack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Jazz | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

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