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Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
Under the incurious eyes of a flock of wild geese, a portentous countdown ran its course last week on the isolated Essex marshes in southeastern England. Inside a long, concrete control room, white-coated engineers made final adjustments on the No. 1 reactor of the Bradwell nuclear power plant and started delivering electricity to London, 45 miles away. Bradwell and the newly opened Berkeley plant in Gloucestershire are the first fruits of the world's most ambitious atomic power program: Britain's drive to build ten reactors capable of meeting 10% (4,000,000 kw.) of British electricity...
...them promising, including Douglas Davis, 33, who had been living in Paris and had decided at the last minute to visit his mother in Atlanta. Dead were Art Patron Sidney Wien, his wife and their daughter; Del Paige, president of the Art Association, and his wife; Tom-Chris Allen, southeastern advertising manager of LIFE, and his wife; Mrs. David Black, one of the tour organizers and an energetic leader in Atlanta's art world. Married couples and individual parents who perished left 31 children aged 14 and under; one Atlanta church lost 16 members, another 14. another 12.* Atlantans...
taxpayers $365 million a year, has failed to stall the inexorable decline of the 200,000 marginal Southeastern cotton farmers, who cannot compete in world markets because they are growing the wrong crop in the wrong place. It has gravely penalized the 35,000 bigger U.S. cotton growers, who could compete against any cotton growers anywhere if only given the freedom to do so. These efficiently automated farmers-mostly in the flat and well irrigated Mississippi Delta, the Texas plains and California's San Joaquin Valley-can work only a fraction of their productive lands because of acreage controls...
...singing." The influences pointing the way were Pianists Nat Cole and Bud Powell and Trumpeter Miles Davis. A New Jersey boy, Evans studied classical piano as a youngster, at twelve filled in one evening with a local dance band and was hooked on jazz. He played his way through Southeastern Louisiana College, there first heard the records of Saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Lennie Tristano school: "I felt for the first time as if I were hearing jazz played that hadn't been learned by osmosis; they were making an effort to build something...