Word: hinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline ventures among financial backers has dropped dramatically. Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning an eye on new airlines." David Hinson, chairman of Chicago-based Midway Airlines, cites another barrier. Says he: "All the infrastructure, like airport gates, has been consumed by the big boys...
...Winter Park, Fla., it took Sandra Hinson only one quarter "to confirm what I'd known since high school phys.-ed.: yours truly is a total eye-hand klutz." TIME Contributor John Skow, who wrote the story, claims "no aptitude, but considerable attraction" toward the beeping machines. He found his skill grew roughly at the rate his money vanished. Skow also tested home game systems and found what any father could have predicted: his 15-year-old daughter wiped him out. Working with Skow was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who has been dueling with arcade machines for three years...
When not at home or church or school (where the children, all of them white, prayed daily), Helms seems to have lived one gamboling, summery pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines...
...harmonious glow of oldtime, small-town pleasures. The only local recollection of something like misbehavior was a climb he made up the courthouse clock tower, which sits on George and Tillman Helms' original farmstead. But it was not a very hazardous feat. "We all did that back then," says Hinson. "There was a stepladder...
...played together?Jesse played with black kids too." (Helms said, a few years ago, that segregation was "not wrong for its time.") He was a gangling teen-ager whose schoolwork was only passably good except in math and English. "He had a big vocabulary for a country town," says Hinson. Clontz agrees: "He always used big words...