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...table wines. Last week, after months of soul searching, the Brothers announced that bottled spirits no longer fit into their plans. The company will sell its $100 million-a-year wine-and-brandy business and 1,160 acres of prime vineyards to Heublein, a subsidiary of London-based Grand Metropolitan, for an undisclosed amount, perhaps as much as $150 million. Heublein, which owns California's Inglenook vineyard but has no major brandy label of its own, would thus become the largest vintner (1,940 acres) in the Napa Valley...
...life of a Jewish klansman is not chopped liver. Jordan Gollub, who was born of Jewish parents in Philadelphia, managed despite that fact to become Grand Dragon of the Virginia chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1985 he was dismissed by Virgil Griffin, the self-proclaimed national leader of the anti-black, anti-Semitic hate group. Gollub contends that it was not his Jewish origins that led to his ouster, but an intra-Klan factional dispute. Undeterred, Gollub moved on to Mississippi and snaked his way back into becoming that state's Klan leader. Last...
...passenger was Jacob F. (Jake) Horton, 57, a Gulf Power vice president who had hastily arranged to fly to Atlanta, headquarters of Southern Co., the utility's corporate parent. Since last year a federal grand jury in Atlanta has been looking into suspicious accounting practices in the spare-parts department at Southern Co., but the inquiry has grown into a broad investigation of alleged tax fraud and graft at the utility and its subsidiaries, including Gulf Power. On the day of the crash, Horton was told by Gulf Power officials that an internal auditing group had recommended his dismissal after...
Horton's death was only one of a series of unsolved mysteries that have embroiled Gulf Power. Last December Ray Howell, a Pensacola graphic artist who worked for Gulf, traveled to Atlanta but disappeared prior to a scheduled appearance before the grand jury. A month later, former Gulf Power director Robert McRae and his wife were found shot to death at their home in Graceville, Fla. In the weeks since the crash, three dead yellow birds -- which Levin believes are Mafia-style warnings not to divulge the substance of his last conversation with Horton -- have been deposited outside the attorney...
...American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading. "It's like a volcano getting ready...