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...Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history. As one rhapsodic Texan put it: "A shining strand linking together the jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gull...
...safe from preying U-boats in the Gulf. But the Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars...
Just about the only competitor who stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool...
...Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip shots sharp, his putting amazingly accurate. With the additional help of body English on the greens, Burke beat Florida's Ted Kroll 3 and 2, to become the only golfer besides Sam Snead to win the Masters and P.G.A. tournaments in the same year...
...short, by Texan Howerton's generous code, there should be hope even for those who violate the eleventh commandment, i.e., "don't get caught...