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School integration had gone remarkably smoothly in the steamy cotton town of Drew in the Mississippi Delta. A majority of white parents, to be sure, had taken their children out of Drew High School. But those who remained got along well with their black classmates; there was not a single racial incident during the entire school year. Last week, graduation exercises brought a year of tranquillity to a fitting close. Garbed in caps and gowns, white and blacks mingled freely under the gaze of proud parents...
Calling the shooting a "deplorable and appalling act," President Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate and determine whether a federal offense had been committed. "It's a moral outrage," said Hodding Carter III, editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, "but also a chance to prove it is an aberration and not part of an unending string of events." Amid the bright promise of the new South, the murder was a tragic reminder...
Most of the nation's twelve major airlines are just beginning to pull out of the steepest nosedive in the industry's recent history, but one carrier has been cruising above the clouds all along. Delta Airlines earned $41 million last year and is doing almost as well...
Compared with many larger airlines, which have a patina of sophistication, Delta comes off as an unpretentious country cousin. Instead of advertisements and commercials featuring aircraft silhouetted against flaming sunsets or sonorous "Wings of Man" pitches, Delta serves up pedestrian slogans like "The airline run by professionals" and the only slightly more inspired "Delta is ready when you are." Instead of grasping only for the glamour routes, Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta...
...strong doubts are beginning to disturb the cognoscenti, who worry that Sadat will become a Nasser-like strongman. It is an unexpected role. Before Sadat assumed the top office, his chief accomplishment was surviving for 18 years in Nasser's coterie, though he was banished to his native Delta village for five weeks only last summer for using government powers to take over a luxurious villa that his wife coveted. Cairo skeptics suggest that his accession to power merely portends a different sort of police state. "Up till now, the leftist-controlled intelligence tapped the telephones of the conservatives...