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...idea that Times Mirror should buy the Sun was first suggested to Murphy by Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson, an old friend and colleague from the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News. "It's a beautiful fit for us," said Johnson last week. The Sun's owners, the Abell family, said that the Times Mirror offer was simply too generous to refuse. Critics wondered whether the Times was paying too much for the Sun. "Prices for media properties have been running high," admitted Times Mirror Chairman Erburu. "But if you make the right acquisition and get a satisfactory return...
...American dairy farmers, U.S. agricultural policy makes no sense these days. At a time when the Government is paying farmers about $2 billion a year to buy up surplus milk, Masstock International, an Irish dairy company, is receiving a federal tax break to construct a large dairy plant in Macon County, Georgia. Most of the funding for this project will come from $4.5 million in municipal bonds, which are exempt from federal taxes. The bonds were issued by Macon County officials, who hope to create new jobs in their area...
...Harvard hockey team barely lose the National Championship to the Michigan State Spartans who were a faster and bigger team (the announcer said) something like Rambo Meets Dorothy Hamill (the announcer said) but then I don't remember much else of the game because we had stopped in Macon, Georgia and bought several bottles of homemade Georgia Peach Wine which tasted a little like the juice from Libby's Canned Peaches spiked with Everclear grain alcohol and which we had drunk very quickly and with little regard for personal well-being which didn't keep any of us from shouting...
...mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape playback of Trotter addressing a faculty meeting included her comment that if teachers thought some of the athletes had a bona fide chance of graduating, "we're talking through our hats." Apparently so: the Macon Telegraph and News reported that in ten years only 17% of Georgia's black football players graduated...
...fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler...