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...construction projects generously support Blount's Old South lifestyle. His version of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara is Wynfield, a rambling 140-acre estate near Montgomery, complete with a 19-room Georgian mansion, a swimming pool, stables and magnolia trees. The bright red hair that earned him the nickname of his youth is now sparse and streaked with gray, but the strapping, 6-ft. 2-in. Blount keeps trim with frequent tennis matches and ski trips to Vail, Colo. On jaunts to visit construction sites around the U.S., he sometimes personally pilots one of his company...
...area of New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens, more than 100 wells have been poisoned by chemicals leaching from the 135-acre Jackson Township dump. James McCarthy, who had drunk well water for ten years, had one kidney removed in 1977, and now has trouble with the other. Tara, his daughter, died in 1975 of a kidney cancer when she was nine months old. A 16-year-old neighbor lost a kidney to cancer; another neighbor is on dialysis for kidney problems; a third also has a kidney ailment. No scientific link has been established between the chemicals...
...children. How more saccharine than a sweet tooth they are. Pity the poor darlings. All they do is beam and fawn on Mama. Exempt the tiniest tot, Tara Kennedy, 7, who puts on a sizzling display of stagewise expertise in a song-and-dance duo with George S. Irving. A born hamster, she's good enough to wake up the audience. So is Irving. As Uncle Chris, a cigar-chomping, whisky-swigging lecher, he, at least, colors the stage something other than its prevailing gray...
Council sessions at the Homestead combine the rich flavor of a country weekend at a Tara-like estate with the glorious luxury of an old-fashioned transatlantic voyage. The five-star resort has three 18-hole golf courses and 15 tennis courts. In the cavernous lobby, where half a dozen roaring fireplaces give off the gentle fragrance of burning hickory and high tea is served while a string trio plays, notices offer skeet shooting or trout fishing. There is also horseback riding or jaunts in a surrey, along with bowling, swimming and spa waters...
...First Lady and First Child. So were 1,000 or so other folks. In the background were the rolling farm land and pine forests of south Georgia. In the foreground was Billy's new and modest mansion, 19 long miles from Plains, a kind of post-bellum Tara, built out of brick and grit and Billy's determination to be an altogether different sort of person from his brother...