Muscle Shoals, Alabama

THERE WERE only seven people on Southern Airlines' Boeing 727 flight number 63 from Atlanta to Muscle Shoals, via Huntsville-Decatur on a recent Wednesday afternoon. Three of the people alighted in Huntsville-Decatur. All that we picked up were a few bags of U.S. mail which were unceremoniously heaved into the hold by a Negro youth. Steam hissed from the concrete as the sun baked the last remnant of an overnight storm.