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...representatives of two Salt Lake citizens groups have filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department to stop the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test, announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities...
...Strake Jesuit College Preparatory school, through its dealing with Frank Sharp, a central figure in the SEC suit, lost...
...legislation was approved on Sept. 8 and 9. Just two days after that, most of the politicians who had bought heavily began selling their shares in National Bankers Life. The stock was then trading over the counter at between 15 and 16. Yet the Strake school, which had previously been involved in business dealings with the insurance company and the bank, bought large blocks of the politicians' stock at between 20 and 26. Why?' The SEC documents offer no clue. The Rev. Michael Kennelly, then Strake's president, said that he had not understood the manipulations...
Died. George W. Strake, 74, pioneering Texas oilman and pillar of the Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; in Columbus, Texas. For five years as a wildcatter, Strake drilled dry well after dry well. Then in 1931 he hit oil in Conroe, Texas, in what proved to be the nation's third biggest field. It brought him a fortune estimated at $100 million, much of which he gave to his church-a beneficence that brought him two of the Vatican's highest honors for a layman-the Order of St. Sylvester and the Order of Malta...
...Greece. Much of his time is spent making crusty pronouncements from the poop ("A marina is the yachtsmen's slum"), and there is nothing here for people who think port is something that comes in a bottle. But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen...