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There can be no doubt as to what sort of beast North Carolina's 12th District is. It ambles crookedly from the textile mills of Gastonia to the skyscrapered banking district of Charlotte, through Lexington's furniture factories, picking up a voter or 10 on its way between Greensboro's downtown and Burlington's outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Eryn R. Brown '93 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Joshua A. Gastonia '91-'92 Joseph R. Palmer '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Sports Editors: Josie Karp '94 Michael R. Grunwald '92 Peter I. Rosenthal '93 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Michael F. Koehler '92 Business Editor: Raymond B. Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Laura A. Dickinson...
...physical and yet becoming. Ewing flared at James Worthy once, but they patched it up quickly. Worthy, who is 6 ft. 9 in., ran down Georgetown's 6-ft. 3-in. guard Sleepy Floyd one time and then worried whether his friend was all right; both come from Gastonia, N.C. Carolina Guard Jimmy Black had some rough words with Floyd during the game but only sweet ones for him later. And Brown, who mistook Wor thy for a teammate and in a horrifying misfire tossed his team's last chance away, stood up bravely to waves of questions...
...Gastonia...
...just after the President's TV talk, 58% of the respondents said that there was little difference between the corruption of the Nixon Administration and that of other Administrations in the last 25 years. People who were queried last week voiced similar viewpoints. Said Mrs. James Aycock, a Gastonia, N.C., housewife: "If we got rid of all the shady people in Washington, who'd be left to run the Government...