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...perfect trip for Allan Geddes, 76. Geddes and his late wife Shirley had always done things "top of the line," according to their son John, 49, a glass designer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. What's more, railroading had always been Allan's passion, from putting together the tabletop track and cars John played with as a boy to accumulating a wealth of big-engine lore. On a 10-day rail tour from Los Angeles to Savannah, Ga., which included stops at the Grand Canyon and New Orleans, father and son occupied separate mahogany-and- velvet-trimmed sleeper cars that dated...
With the hurricane season starting June 1, flooding is on everyone's mind in New Orleans these days. Downtown last week, government officials, military men in desert gear and private suppliers ran a tabletop exercise against a fictional Category 4 hurricane named Oscar. Next up: the exercise goes live, with role players posing as residents fleeing a Category 3 storm by bus from the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center, the scene of real-life tragedy after Katrina. Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working...
...thinking in terms of fashion, accessories and home products." So he logs a lot of miles traveling there to check up on his home-fragrance line for Limited Brands. On a recent trip, he was finalizing items for his upcoming Limited home collection of fragrances, candles, potpourris, trays and tabletop accessories. After shopping, he makes sure to sample the city's best restaurants. Here's a peek inside his address book...
After a year of rehabilitation at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Braddock is driving his Jeep Wrangler home this week to Vancouver, Wash., to see his mom, play tabletop war games with his buddies and try to get out of the Guard--not to leave the military but to join the Army. He wants to go back to Iraq, never mind the missing leg. After all, with its high-tech Renegade foot, his new one has made him faster and funnier. Why test fate a second time? Because he loves the military, loves guns and loved...
...Iraq, he used his reputation as an auto mechanic to play practical jokes on the unsuspecting. "I'd tell 'em to go get a flux capacitor," he says, laughing that his Guard buddies didn't catch the Back to the Future reference. His favorite game remains Warhammer, a tabletop battlefield game in which real-world strategies are played out with miniature soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like its Imperial Guard ("the National Guard of the future," he says) with the game's Space Orks. "It's a way of acting like a kid and getting away...