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Ernest G. Reuning Athens, Ga...
...will get a chance to mend other badly neglected fences during the two-week vacation that he began last Friday. He was scheduled to spend four days at his home in Plains, Ga., a visit that is intended to remind disgruntled Southerners that he is one of them. Then he goes west to Idaho for some rafting on the Salmon River and to Wyoming for some hiking around Jackson Hole. On his return, he must prepare for his summit conference with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In his talks with these two shrewd visitors...
...Carters have strikingly similar backgrounds. She, too, was born and grew up in Plains, Ga., where her father was a mechanic. He died when she was 13, and she helped to oversee the three younger children while her mother worked. She married Jimmy when she was 18, and he, at 21, had just emerged from Annapolis to begin a seven-year naval career. When they returned to Plains, she kept the books for his peanut and fertilizer business, while raising four children. Throughout, her inner toughness was being strengthened...
...Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to link fighter pilots directly to computers. As the pilot dons his helmet, fine needles will project into his scalp and enable him to shoot a rocket merely by thinking the command to fire. Another project, developed at Fort Benning, Ga., allows a commander to send silent coded orders to troops in the field-electronic blips are transmitted through electrodes attached to the upper arms or abdomens of each soldier. So far, Watson reports, properly trained men can recognize 95% of these coded messages...
With weekly fees of $28 (in Rome, Ga.) to $42 (in Columbia, Md.) and with 22,000 kids under its wing, Kinder-Care had revenues last year of $12.8 million, up 41% from the year before. Earnings have grown for seven straight years, to $745,180 in 1977; for the first nine months of this fiscal year they were up 65%. Kinder-Care stock, first offered in 1972, jumped from less than $1 in 1976 to $29 last week before a two-for-one split Friday. It has made a million dollars for each of 14 ground-floor investors from...