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After corrections officials assigned Singleton to parole in Antioch (pop. 48,000), some 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, nearly 10,000 town residents signed a petition opposing his presence. Fearing vigilante violence, county officials got a temporary court order to block the plan. San Francisco County quickly followed suit, citing similar public safety concerns. Nearby San Mateo County also raised objections to having Singleton living within its borders. At week's end Singleton's ex-wife Mary Collins stated that she was not afraid of him and offered to take him into her home in Lake County, north...
Today Taylor is probably America's greatest living choreographer. He has received most of the major awards, including a MacArthur "genius grant." He has a town house in Greenwich Village. But before the adulation and creature comforts came decades of very hard scrambling. He was born near Pittsburgh in the depths of the Depression, and his parents separated when he was a small boy. Mama was too busy managing hotel dining rooms to spend much time with her son. Still, he recalls, "I don't remember ever being lonely -- I had health, privacy, and a mother I was wild about...
...cabin, 12 x 16 feet, without running water. Butcher melts ice in the winter, draws water from a nearby stream in the summer, and generates a limited supply of electricity. The closest neighbor is more than six miles away, mail is 25 miles away, and Fairbanks--the nearest town--145 miles southeast...
...stinking scow then headed for a dump site just outside New Orleans. When the Mobro arrived at the Delta town of Venice, Louisiana's department of environmental quality sent inspectors to examine the gunk. Although the bales consisted primarily of paper, investigators discovered hospital items -- syringes, bedpans -- that could pose a health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf...
...cross section of a nautilus shell and a big Victorian house, "with all its rooms and this naked freckled woman waiting in one of its chambers." The story itself has the nacreous quality of an old memory; the narrator, a biology teacher in a declining New England mill town, recalls his affair with a California woman who is married to the city's last factory owner. The period is the early '70s with its antiwar politics, new feminists, ecology, astrology and unrevocable sexual license...