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...formation and glided unobtrusively into a suite of neat, quiet rooms. Their object: a thorough hangar check for heart disease. Since 1950, more than 50 middle-aged Air Force executives-from the Secretary down-have undergone regular scrutiny by a team of Air Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most important for significant findings about the functions of diet and stress in heart disease...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...