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...Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights for Florida's wetlands...
...nearly four decades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 92, has been the eloquent voice of South Florida's Everglades. As writer, she celebrated the mysteries of the swampy wilderness in the 1947 classic, The Everglades: River of Grass. As president of Friends of the Everglades, the 2,800-member organization she founded in 1970, she has battled civilization's encroachments in an effort to preserve and restore North America's only subtropical zone. Douglas and her recruits, dubbed Marjory's Army, have scored impressive victories, helping to block construction of an international jetport in the marshland, forcing...
...roadhouse rock 'n' roll with a down-home vision of America, particularly the South. Robbie Robertson's haunting folk ballad The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down recalls a traditional Civil War song: "Virgil Cane is the name/ And I served on the Danville train/ Til Stoneman's cavalry came/ And tore up the tracks again./ In the winter of '65, we were hungry and barely alive...
...Stoneman, a righthander, picked up his first win since he was sold by the Montreal Expos of the National League, allowing only six hits. He left in the ninth after Carlton Fisk opened the inning with his first home run of the season and Cecil Cooper followed with a single...
Singles by Ellie Rodriguez, Denny Doyle and Mickey Rivers and a double play grounder staked Stoneman to a 2-0 lead in the third. The Red Sox fought back with a run in the fourth after a pair of walks and a two-out single by Dwight Evans...