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...Bobotes were Montenegrin villagers from a tiny settlement near the southwestern shore of Lake Scutari (now in Albania...
...earlier books, from A Lamp on the Plains to his two-volume Great River: the Rio Grande, Author Horgan, 56, has shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version...
Amid the pop of champagne corks and the hiss of sulfurous fire, the world's most highly automated aluminum plant was officially opened last week near Lacq in southwestern France. Nestled at the foot of the Pyrenees on once-sleepy pasture land, the $40 million plant is the showpiece of one of France's most aggressive and fastest-growing companies: the aluminum and chemical firm of Pechiney, Europe's biggest aluminum producer. While the plant increases France's aluminum capacity by one-third, it can be run by only 350 employees...
Around Chestnut Ridge in southwestern Pennsylvania, mountain folk were wary of the mean-tempered, sharpshooting Raymond clan. In 1922 Albert Raymond had fussed with his wife, ended by shooting her and killing himself. Grandson Gerald Raymond had been led to jail recently for threatening to kill a man. Only a month ago, the family's hot blood ran true-and freely-when Patriarch Norval Raymond, 69, blasted a son-in-law in the face with a shotgun. Yet one Raymond seemed free of the curse of violence: short (5 ft. 5 in.), wiry Dan, 43, an avid hunter...
...Copper Bowl (CBS, 3:30 p.m.). In Phoenix, Ariz., a team of all-stars from Southwestern colleges takes on a team of all-stars from the rest...