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...There ain 't no frustration...
Died. Louis Jordan, 66, saxophonist, blues singer and bandleader, whose Tympany Five combo cut several top-selling discs in the 1940s, including Is You Is or Is You Ain 't My Baby?, Caldonia, and Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
With his wife of 52 years, Lee tramps along the West's interstate highways, picking up aluminum beer and soft-drink cans. "Ain't people nasty the way they throw junk all over the roadside?" said Lee last week, taking a break along the shoulder of Highway 15 in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He shuffled a half mile back down the road to a camper where his wife Grace, 72, was watching over a dozen sacks and cardboard cartons brimful with cans. "It's just terrible to see this litter," she said. "But picking...
...library lawn where one of the murders took place: "I want this guy bad. He's already got three of my buddies. But why kill winos? What does he want?" Some of the younger men shrug it off. "Long as he doesn't bother me, I ain't got nothing against him," says Gilbert Stewart, a 27-year-old Texas black. Others are too far gone to care. But many admit that for once they are worrying about more than their next slug of Ripple...
...large amounts of salt that are found in a diet rich in pork and highly seasoned soul food. Others suggest that the pressures of being black in America are enough to cause the disease. Indeed, a common joke among blacks is "If you're black and you ain't paranoid or suffering from hypertension, you don't know what's going...