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Bloodlines ran everywhere in the race. Owner Dorothy Scharbauer and her husband Clarence have for the most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five...
Quickly then the rumor spread that Archer Daniels Midland Co., the tank owner, was going to paint over the image. Just as quickly a "save the tank" movement got going. Finally a company spokesman announced there would be no painting until things quieted down in Fostoria. The company position was that rust stains, under the nighttime security lights, account for the image. The tank was just put up in July, and a primer was applied to its exterior. If it is to last, it will have to be painted by winter, Christ...
...Texas and Louisiana are understandably upset. In those areas, the price of renting a truck or trailer from the do-it-yourself moving company seems to have shot out of reason. It costs $2,009, for example, to hire a 24-ft. U-Haul truck for a move from Midland, Texas, to Jacksonville. A Florida resident can rent the same truck in the opposite direction for only...
...high double fences around his backyard in Santa Clara, Calif. Even so, police acting on a tip were able to spot the 73 marijuana plants growing in the yard--by flying overhead in a chartered plane. Dow Chemical Co. had even more elaborate security precautions at its plant in Midland, Mich. So the Environmental Protection Agency also sent up an airplane, to get pictures as part of an inspection of the site. In two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that neither search from the skies required a warrant...
...Midland bought controlling interest in Crocker in 1981. Shortly thereafter, Crocker began losing money because of shaky loans, but Midland reorganized the California bank and helped it earn a profit of $38 million in 1985. Midland was willing to sell Crocker because better profit opportunities are becoming available in Britain as the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulates the country's financial markets. For that reason, Midland decided that it made more sense to deploy its resources at home rather than continue a long-distance relationship with Crocker...