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...smart-money trends. Indeed, the hottest property on the N.Y.S.E. was Allied Products, a Chicago agricultural-equipment maker that bucked an industry slump by producing cultivating implements designed to help farmers cut energy costs. Republic Gypsum, a Dallas manufacturer of wallboard and asphalt roofing, thrived on the Sunbelt's homebuilding boom. California's Mattel bounced back from last year's worst-performers list by turning away from electronic games in favor of dolls like those in its deliriously successful Masters of the Universe line. Rollins Environmental Services, a Wilmington, Del., firm that handles industrial waste, benefited from stricter federal rules...
...surge in executions has been an exclusively Southern phenomenon: all 20 this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University of Alabama Law Center, who cites the area's traditions of frontier violence and eye-for-an-eye justice. But this regionalism will probably end soon. Indiana expects to put at least one person to death during 1985. So do Nebraska, Missouri and Idaho...
...Every three nights or so, somebody would take about 50 bricks," says Smith. "It stopped only when the city paved it over." Each day bricks from abandoned buildings and old alleys in Midwestern cities are pilfered, sold and shipped out of town on boxcars. Ultimately they end up in Sunbelt states, where there is great demand for used brick. "They're advertising homes built with Chicago brick," says John Dean, of Chicago's department of inspectional services. "We are watching the destruction of a city...
Compared to the rest of the sunbelt, New Mexico is indeed liberal, but Republicans here have had some success in counteracting the heavily Democratic Hispanic vote. The reason: the conservative economic interests which dominate the state in the form of a powerful energy and military industrial establishment. The state is home to two major research facilities (Los Alamos and Sandia Labs) and two Air Force bases, and uranium mining is a major source of revenue...
...vote might also be taken as a reaffirmation of a lot of things we've been hearing about the transformation of die-hard conservative attitudes in the Sunbelt by urbanization and an influx of Easterners (in Oklahoma, for example, fully two-thirds of the population of 3,025,290 lives in metropolitan areas). But more than 40 percent of Oklahoma City's 403,213 residents and 60 counties--more than 85 percent of the state's land area--turned thumbs down on changing one of the oldest traditions in the 77-year-old state...