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...malodorous was the air surround ing the Bishop Processing Co. near Bishop, Md., that nausea forced a federal official to flee the area before he could read his Scentometer. Spreading from the plant was the pungent smell of rendered chicken heads, feet, feathers and entrails. Southerly breezes wafted the odor across the state line to the town of Selbyville, Del. After Maryland's efforts to assert control failed, Selbyville citizens began a movement that eventually persuaded the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to sue Bishop under the 1967 Clean Air Act. The smell of the processing plant, they...
...police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround the department, in Reddin's words, with a "blue curtain of secrecy...
Five days later, the City and Federal governments that most of the marchers had elected or supported or were members of ordered 1000 police in riot gear with shotguns and tear gas grenades to surround Resurrection City, and arrest the 100 inhabitants left inside for overstaying their welcome...
...repository of cultural artifacts outside the Smithsonian Institution. On TV, of course, the movies are tiny, like warriors who have become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some...
...wife Ethel often said, "I think he's brilliant," but his assets lay more in a sharp intelligence, a fierce energy, and an ability to give and attract devotion and to surround himself with brilliance. Almost from the day of his brother's inauguration, Hickory Hill, the historic estate in Virginia that once belonged to President John, became an institution that the capital will sorely miss...