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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1979
Page
5
A humorous spoof imagines a new dating show The We’ve Split Game featuring couples and gatekeeper points given for revealing insults and custody stakes. The column riffs on contestants from crude ad copy and classic game show tropes with a host Chuck Whacko and public defender twists.
The column discusses whether circumcision is mandatory for converting to Judaism, noting Orthodox and Conservative practice versus some Reform rabbis flexibility. It also addresses a 87-year-old father gifting money to children tax efficiently, and a reader asking how to decline an office wedding deemed immoral. Abby suggests seeking legal and financial advice and offers contact details for Families Anonymous and Abby.
George Green, a retiree from the Savannah River Plant, has traveled 40 000 miles in 20 months on trains across the United States and Canada using passes now discontinued. He notes Amtrak capacity shifts, station modernization, and varying timetables while predicting growing rail use amid gas shortages, but warns of potential service cuts as October approaches.
Dr. Niles A. Borop, gynecologist, moves back to Aiken after a year away at Fort Jackson hospital. He resumes practice with fewer obstetrics patients, builds a new office near Aiken Community Hospital, and notes most former patients have returned. He cites love for Aiken and dislike of rigid army medicine.
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