Word: ga
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...withdrawn $491,840 in charges to the Defense Department for air travel by its chairman, David S. Lewis, and other executives. The bill included 76 flights that Lewis made in Sabreliner and Gulfstream III company jets from General Dynamics headquarters in St. Louis to his farm in Albany, Ga., and 67 flights he made to San Francisco and Wichita to attend board meetings of other firms where he served as a director...
That is because Eugene Roach knows his checkers. As a child, he was casually interested in the game. But when he went into the Army in 1953, in Fort Benning, Ga., one of his bunkmates was a checkers master from New York, and the champion's influence "got me to scratching them books" (he now possesses more than 250 manuals on checkers). Roach went on to make it himself as a master in tournament play and to earn the nickname "Double-Trouble" Roach, and to antagonize his wife Laura. "I don't play with him any more," she allowed...
...violence among farmers who feel manipulated and want to strike out at someone or something, most of their protest has been a stolid, dignified resistance to farm foreclosures or forced auctions. Some 40 supporters of Ray Parks, 42, gathered in front of the Worth County courthouse in Sylvester, Ga., last week and joined loudly in song to prevent an auctioneer from hearing any bids on the 595-acre spread. To the tune of Home on the Range, they sang, "Oh, give me my farm, and a price that is fair, and a chance to pay all of my debts...
Crystal Oil, a Shreveport, La., refiner, posted the worst performance on the American Stock Exchange, dropping from 14 3/8 to 3 1/4. Healthdyne of Marietta, Ga., a manufacturer of devices that monitor infants for sudden-death syndrome, turned in the largest decline on the over-the-counter market, falling from...
Thomas F. Budlong Jr. Decatur, Ga...