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Camp Lucas. Located on the edge of town, in the wooded country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where some of Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are set, this nine-acre National Guard camp has piqued the attention of at least two potential users. Lake Superior State College is interested in adding the parcel to its 114-acre campus. The city of Sault Sainte Marie believes it has a legal claim to the land as well. The land is believed to be worth $3,000 per acre...
Weirton, W. Va., was not exactly named "in honor" of Ernest T. Weir. Rather, when Weir bought a tract of farm land in the state's panhandle in 1909 and built a sprawling steelmaking complex, he needed people and houses to go along with his factory. Thus the town was born. Today Weirton Steel Co. is a division of National Steel Corp., but a majority of the labor force in Weirton (pop. 25,536) still works in the rumbling, fuming steelworks along Main Street. "It's sink or swim together," says Mary Brula, a bank teller whose husband...
...withholding won with the argument that tax cheating on interest and dividend income was depriving the Government of some $8 billion a year; the Senate bill would recapture $4.3 billion of that. Still, a drive to delete the withholding provision, led by Republican Robert Kasten of Wisconsin and Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, lost by only three votes. The withholding proposal would have lost if such liberal Democrats as Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Alan Cranston of California and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut had not voted against the deletion amendment...
...begins Canadian Timothy Findley's fourth and most peculiar novel. In Ragtime style. Famous Last Words assembles a vivid cast of historical personages, among them the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lana Turner, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh. But here the famous names do not move to syncopated jazz; instead the work resounds with tainted anthems...
...issue that led to the decision surfaced in 1968, when Air Force Budget Analyst A. Ernest Fitzgerald told Congress that development costs of the $3.4 billion C-5A transport plane were over budget by $2 billion. In 1970, as the result of what the Air Force described as a reorganization, the Pentagon let Fitzgerald go. The Civil Service Commission found the dismissal improper, and ordered that he be re-employed with back pay. Fitzgerald protested that his new cost analyst job was not equivalent to the old one. In a $3.5 million suit, Fitzgerald charged that Nixon had conspired...