Word: railroads
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...fact, the Moreland Avenue area in southeast Atlanta seems to be connected with many of the murders. Aaron Jackson Jr., 9, was last seen Nov. 1 at the same shopping center, and the body of Aaron Wyche, 10, was discovered last June near a railroad bridge off Moreland Avenue. Five other victims lived within a three-mile radius of the shopping center, and Rogers knew at least four of them. After Wyche's death, Rogers had remarked to his mother that the killings were getting "close to home...
Well it might be. Born in 1936 in Derry, Pa. (pop. 3,400), near Pittsburgh, Boyer is the son of a railroad conductor and brakeman. Early on he was more inclined toward football than scholarship. His high school class voted him "most athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers...
Painter said that the assembly did not give the El Salvador issue enough time but tried to "railroad a motion through...
...failed to return home from a job at a snack bar in northwest Atlanta. The task force is also hunting for Darron Glass, 10, who was last seen in September. The death of Aaron Wyche, 10, whose body was found last June in De Kalb County beneath a railroad trestle, was originally classified an accident; investigators have now determined that his death was due to asphyxiation and was similar to some of the other cases...
...story amounts to this: having been booted from school two or three times and having disappointed his father's ambition for him to become a chip off the old block in the medical profession, he became a day laborer in a steel mill and a pit man in a railroad roundhouse. He spent most of his nights drinking "bootleg" liquor at clubs and speakeasies but somehow found enough contacts and friends to get a job with The New Yorker...