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North Carolina's Greensboro News cancels Dick Tracy after the jut-jawed cop dispatches a miscreant with the observation, "Violence is golden when it is used to put down evil...
Embarrassing the boss is another tactic. In April, 64 members of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union stormed the North Carolina golf course where the Greensboro Open, an event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...finish here and there scattered among 30 or 35 starts is usually enough to keep a player in the Top 125 on the money list...qualifying him for a return trip to the Tour, where he can again dazzle galleries by finishing eighth at the Kemper and eleventh at Greensboro...
...such luck. Last week Southeastern Eye Center, a Greensboro, North Carolina, clinic specializing in cataract surgery, announced that it intends to file a defamation suit against Dateline for a May 4 feature titled "Cataract Cowboys." The segment focused its harsh lights on scalpel-happy surgeons who earn millions by allegedly operating on patients who don't need surgery...
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...