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...Macon's blue-collar Southside, the Sandwich King is a friendly, family- owned eatery where folks slurp coffee and talk about bass fishing, layoffs at the local textile mills and, once in a while, politics. Most of the whites at the cafe describe themselves as evangelical Christians who support a strong military and a balanced budget. A real Reaganite bunch? Think again. "I don't always like the Democrats who run for President," says Bill Morland, 36, a burly telephone lineman, "but it was pretty clear to me from the get-go that Ronald Reagan was out to make...
...hopes are that the interaction between mayors during the breaks will be one of the most beneficial things," said Mayor Lee Robinson of Macon, Ga. Robinson said the seminar would allow the mayors to establish a mutual trust which would serve them well during their terms in office...
Every now and then a franchise attempts a punning name. A hockey team in Georgia was known as the Macon Whoopees, and the Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders were once called the Embraceable Ewes. The name Buffalo Bills is a pun of sorts. So was the name of the late American Basketball Association team, the St. Louis Spirits. (Get it? The Spirit of St. Louis?) Perhaps one day we will have the Norman (Okla.) Conquests or the Greenwich Village Idiots...
...Minnesota Republican did not say whatdocuments the committee was seeking. But inMoultrie, Ga., Maule Aircraft Corp. said it hadreceived subpoenas for records on four aircraftfrom the U.S. attorney's office in Macon as wellfrom the Senate committee. The four airplanesinclude one reportedly sold to rebels in Nicaraguaby a firm headed by retired Air Force Maj. Gen.Richard V. Secord...