Word: ohio
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...Drexel affair is only the latest float in a parade of American infamies. They date back to the early 19th century, when a hustler named Daniel Drew delivered some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station, he let the animals slake their thirst at a shallow creek...
...Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what's this? -- is puffing to a stop. He boards, confused, and finds...
...Pennsylvania's Tarentum Valley News Dispatch, Oklahoma's Enid News & Eagle and the Moscow Idahonian-Daily News, but no papers based in New York City or Los Angeles. The U.P.I. board comprises 50 college coaches, but its membership also borders on the capricious. Tim Rose of minor Miami (Ohio) is a voter; Dennis Erickson of major Miami...
Princeton guard Sean Jackson, a transfer from Ohio University, burned the Quakers for 24 points, leading Princeton to a 56-44 victory at Jadwin Gym here Saturday night. Jackson led the Tigers (9-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy) on 8-for-9 from the field, including 7-for-8 from three-point land...
...company, Democrat Cranston has the four other colleagues who with him received a total of nearly $1.4 million from Keating: Democrats John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, and Republican John McCain of Arizona. The two other Senators mired in their own scandals are Republicans Dave Durenberger of Minnesota and Alfonse D'Amato of New York...