Word: austin
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John Paul Austin. Rowed on the U.S. Olympic crew in 1936. Graduated from Harvard Law. Decorated as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander. Caught the eye of legendary Coca-Cola Chairman Bob Woodruff, who recruited and groomed him. Became chief in 1966. Earns in the high six figures. Is a buddy of fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter. Taught himself passable Japanese. Works in an Atlanta eyrie among Oriental antiques and photos of his handsome wife. Spends more than half his time traveling, largely to the 135 countries where Coke does business. Has a rather radical idea: the whole world...
...Dhabi, for instance, they are raising quantities of plump tomatoes, cucumbers and beans for 10? per Ib. The trick is to grow them under an inflatable plastic dome, which captures the air's available moisture instead of allowing it to evaporate under the searing sun. Also, J. Paul Austin explains, carbon dioxide is pumped in from diesel exhausts, and the gas promotes plant growth...
BORN. To E. Howard Hunt, 60, convicted Watergate burglar and author of 54 books, and his wife of 18 months, Laura Martin Hunt, 34, a former Spanish teacher: a son; in Miami. The child, named Austin Dairing, is her first and his fifth (four by his late first wife...
Steve Parrino Austin...
...fugitives returned to the senate, they were cheered from the galleries, where some spectators had donned yellow-and-black Killer Bee T shirts and a few wore fake insect antennae on their heads. The senators then revealed that the hiding place that had flummoxed the police was right in Austin, just three miles from the red granite state capitol-as the bee flies...