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Police, anticipating the large turn-out, blocked off adjacent Beech Street. The street will remain closed to traffic through Saturday in order to accommodate mourners...
...whether he remembers any happy times with his dad, and he tells stories of outings that end in car crashes or fighting. Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about that time when Jackie stole the pickup truck or dynamited the beech tree or bashed in the windshield or held the church congregation hostage. Says Kay's father, Chester Williams, a retired coal miner and preacher: "He felt like he could do anything and get by with...
...contrast to such vibrancy, only a dozen graying worshipers attend the Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in Beech Island, S.C., for a Wednesday night service. Founded in 1750, Silver Bluff is the oldest surviving black congregation in the U.S. Noting the total absence of younger Baptists at the service, head deacon Willie Sims utters an earnest prayer: "Father, come back to Silver Bluff one more time...
Senate Republican leader Bob Dole has two builders of small aircraft, Cessna and Beech, in his state of Kansas. They employ 12,300 people and contribute more than $1 billion to the state's economy. Thus when a 10% tax on the purchase of all small planes was proposed, Dole took off. He got the surcharge limited to those costing more than $250,000, which exempts virtually all of the ones built in his state. Dole has received at least $4,250 from the two manufacturers. Dole also got special treatment for an old friend -- Dwayne Andreas, president...
...visible corporate misdeeds has sparked the outrage. According to a study by sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of FORTUNE 500 companies were convicted between 1975 and 1985 of serious crimes, from price fixing to illegal dumping of hazardous wastes. Executives at Beech-Nut tried to pass off flavored water as apple juice. Ivan Boesky and a ring of Wall Streeters traded on insider information. Even such an upstanding company as Eastman Kodak, which has won awards for its minority-hiring and other social programs, has felt the heat. Residents of Rochester, where...