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Resettled in North Carolina, they were welcomed at Greensboro airport by hundreds of Americans bearing flowers and gifts. Conceded Lieutenant Governor Robert Jordan: "It may take more than one generation for them to feel * comfortable with us." But many Americans agreed that resettlement in the U.S. was the least that could be done. Said a State Department official who processed them through refugee camps: "They had been allies...
Fussell's strength is her energy. On her cross-country trek the author covers scores of local cuisines and the locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon...
...quite often talked about the important role his Russian heritage played in his upbringing and his desire to go back to the Soviet Union," said Ned A. Cline, managing editor at the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record...
...other American fellows are: Charles Alson of the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record, Douglas Cumming of The Providence (R.I.) Journal, Michael Davis of The (Baltimore) Evening Sun, Susan Dentzer of Newsweek Magazine, Valerie Hyman of WSMV-TV in Nashville, Nancy Lee of The New York Times, Martha Matzke of Education Week, Michael Meyers of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Charles Powers of The Los Angeles Times, and Ira Rosen of the CBS program "60 Minutes...
Jesse Jackson, a classmate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University at Greensboro, said McNair saw participation in the space program as "the highest way he could contribute to the system that gave him so much." But McNair did not win an honored place in that system without a struggle. In a 1984 speech to students at the University of South Carolina, he recalled feeling discouraged as a college freshman until a guidance counselor urged him to pursue physics "because I think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them...