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...Jake LaMotta was featured in every pretty piece on the passing of Sugar Ray Robinson, he might have been taken for an elder statesman of boxing, a figure of charm and standing. As a matter of fact, when Robinson made a Spanish omelet out of LaMotta in 1951, the New York Herald Tribune called it "the first believable knockout of ((Jake's)) life." LaMotta swears he never took a dive except the one against Blackjack Billy Fox, and that was so long...
...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...
Levin has accused Gulf Power of "trying to make the public believe Jake set the plane on fire" by telling only their side of the story behind Horton's imminent dismissal. Executives of Gulf Power and Southern have clammed up, refusing to give more information until authorities determine the cause of the mishap. One thing is sure: no matter what the investigation turns up, many people in Pensacola will insist that the crash that killed Jake Horton was no accident...
...Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.) chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), the panel's senior Republican, had been resisting amendments, arguing that the package put together privately by the committee and endorsed by a 21-0 vote last week was too delicately balanced to with-stand many changes without crumbling...
...Captain Scott Hilinski tallied three trys against the Boston Rugby Club. Steve Cohn, Tim Perini and Bruce Miller each added a pair of trys, and Chriscera, Jake Hill, Mike Newhouse and Co-Captain Jon Greenberg each chipped...