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...POSTON (D) District...
BORN: Oct. 24, 1959, Fort Oglethorpe EDUCATION: U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, B.S., 1982; U of Georgia, J.D., 1985 FAMILY: Wife, Reva Revis RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Georgia House, 1989- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1996, Ringgold 30736. Tel.: 706-965-1996 Poston is out to win back the Ninth for the Democrats, making as much political hay as possible out of his opponent's defection last year. As an eight-year state legislator, he has good name recognition and campaign experience, and promises to bring his commitment to crime prevention and ethics reform--he introduced a state...
...state reptile of Arizona is the ridge-nosed rattlesnake, but voters might be forgiven if they occasionally confuse the reptile with some of their politicians, who have been slithering past the law since the days of Congressman Charles Poston. Known as the "Father of Arizona" for his campaign for territorial status, Poston set a bad example for later generations of politicians when he set out for Washington to claim his congressional seat in 1864 but took a scenic detour -- through Panama -- at a cost to taxpayers...
...Chemical fertilizers hyped the yields. New machines snorted through the thick fields. Norman Lear, the movie producer, came around in 1969 to use the Greenfield square as a setting for his film Cold Turkey. The Free Press went Hollywood with relish, interviewing Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke and Tom Poston. That was before the Dutch elm disease decimated the leafy canopy over the square and left the side streets with sunstroke. Greenfield folks watched in shock as the massive elms, more than 100 years old, were cut down and hauled away. But immediately stories began to appear in the Free...
...Grand Hotel, but life at Vermont's quaint old Stratford Inn is far from routine. For example, here comes the hotel's slow-witted handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) to unveil the latest product from his workshop: a wooden replica of Mount Rushmore featuring the face of Mr. Green Jeans. Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy), the pampered Wasp princess who works at the inn as a maid, goes through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order...