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Today the Kansas City complex consists of about a dozen underground areas. One of the largest is owned by Great Midwest Corp., a land-development company that is a subsidiary of Hunt Midwest Enterprises, which in turn is 90% owned by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. From a distance, the rocky bluff along the Missouri River does not look any different from the surrounding area. Closer up, just below a mixed herd of grazing Angus and Hereford cattle, a hole in the bluff can be seen with big semitrailers going in and out. The address: 8300 N.E. Underground Drive. From another...
Reagan again argued that merit pay for teachers and a return to basics would do more to remedy the "mediocrity" in the schools than infusions of new federal money. On a visit to Farragut High School in a suburb of Knoxville, he listened approvingly as Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander outlined his "master teacher" plan. It would offer salaries of up to $27,100 for top teachers, in contrast with a current high of about $17,800. "If we want to achieve excellence, we must reward it," Reagan said. "It is the American way." While the President was in Tennessee...
...will be offering half a dozen of Guiding Light's regular hands in the TV movie The Cradle Will Fall. Making the whole production look a little glossier is Lauren Mutton, 38. Her presence in Nashville, where the production was being shot, certainly dazzled Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, 42, who named Hutton an honorary "Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Governor's Staff." The actress one-upped the hokum. Replied she: "Well, Governor, where is the camp...
Meanwhile, back across the river in Lauderdale, the Church of Christ preacher who led the opposition to alcohol in Colbert, Lamar Plunket, said the county was in sorry shape. "Alcoholism has increased," he said over a plate of barbecue, turnip greens, pinto beans and sweet potatoes. "Our churches are getting more calls for clothing, for food, because people, once they get on this thing, they're going to have it even if the family goes hungry. And I can't verify this personally, but I've had reports of nude-type dancing in some of the bars...
...week Baker refused either to confirm or to deny reports that he did not plan to run for re-election to the Senate in 1984. "I am in the process of trying to decide what my future will be," he said Saturday at the inaugural festivities for Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander...