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From Greenwood down to Jackson...My first real taste of the Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips...
...weeks ago, when 145 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union stomped out of Irving's $52 million Saint John refinery protesting that their hourly wages-$1.55 to $2.30-were 75? below the industry's average in Canada. The walkout has since spread westward to other parts of the Irving Oil Co. Labor views the Saint John strike as a battle of principle to extend standard industry wages and labor practices to Irving's many companies, but few of the real issues of the strike or its nasty incidents have been reported...
...economics of the situation certainly played a major role in defeating the Times's ambition to move westward. There were neither enough readers nor enough advertisers to keep the Western Edition going. Although preliminary surveys conducted by the Times had indicated a potential readership of 100,000 or better, the Western Edition reached that high only in the first months, thereafter declined to 85,000-scattered widely through 13 states. Advertisers seemed indisposed to spend money on so diffuse an audience. In its first year, the Western Edition carried only 2,183,902 lines of ads-fewer than...
...hundreds of speedboats and scows criss crossed the Gulf of Mexico last week carrying men and material to 88 rigs perched off the Louisiana coast. Helicopters whirred overhead, and field offices set up by 20 major oil companies bulged with engineers and geological surveyors. Arcing from the Mississippi Delta westward to the Sabine River and extending seaward 75 miles, Louisiana's 47 offshore oilfields cover a pool of more than 10 billion bbl. Coastal Louisiana, as a result, has become the world's busiest offshore oil site...
Brown's progress westward, abetted by a bizarre underground network of folk who believe as he does. To these cultists, the impending space visitors are far from the familiar three-eyed monsters of science fiction. Instead they are a race of supermen, perhaps descended from the inhabitants of the lost island of Atlantis (they were thought to have possessed flying machines, and so might have migrated to another planet). With mad logic, Brown's fellow fantasists have built a fabric of proof by linking together all manner of telltale occurrences, past and present-the disappearance...