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...talk, a changing landscape of fancy houses, junkyards, suburbs and woods unscrolls on either side of them. Two football fields away, over Duley's shoulder, the blue jackstaff light marks the front end of 45 million lbs. of cargo that the boat they are on, the Michael J. Grainger, is pushing up the Ohio River. Black water purls gently off bargesides...
...just daunting but preposterous. River towns still treasure tales of binging, brawling and murder among flatboatmen whose godlessness was a point of pride. The stereotype is outdated: massive consolidation hit the freight-barge business in the 1980s, and large firms like the Ingram Barge Co., which owns the Grainger, imposed large-firm professionalism: no drinking or smoking on board and a zero-tolerance drug policy enforced with random testing. Even a crew bent on mayhem would have trouble scheduling it. The tows run 24 hours a day, and for the length of their 30-day shifts, the boatmen never touch...
...progressed from a fishing expedition to personal attacks--a vendetta. Millions and millions of dollars have been spent in this pursuit. Inhabitants of Arkansas have been subjected to inappropriate questions. Federal tax money has been spent by Starr that could have been used for worthy nonpartisan causes. MADELINE GRAINGER San Antonio, Texas...
BORN. To Michelle Phillips, 37, singer and actress (Dillinger; Sam Marlow, Private Eye), and Grainger Nines, 33, actor: a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Austin Devereux Weight...
...four who did-and who also learned Virgil's first name, Grainger's nickname and nearly every vital detail about the bank-left the van in a shopping center a mile away. Tucson police and the FBI started with nothing more than vague descriptions and a tip received five days before-not passed along to local banks-that two convicted bank robbers and murderers might have arrived from California...