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Even a top carrier is lumbering. After gobbling up PSA and Piedmont in 1987 to form the sixth largest U.S. carrier, USAir is losing market share to competitors. Projecting losses of $350 million for the year, USAir last week suspended its stock dividend and postponed for one year the purchase of 16 new Boeing aircraft...
Greensboro (pop. 195,495), a prosperous town set on North Carolina's lush Piedmont Plateau, has been a national bellwether of race relations. It was not only the birthplace of the sit-in movement but also the site of one of the most horrifying episodes of racial violence since the 1960s. In 1979 five Communist Workers Party members taking part in a "Death to the Klan" rally were gunned down in the street by American Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...loner by temperament and circumstance -- his family was constantly relocating from one drab Piedmont town to another -- Price describes the boy he was as "a born witness or spy . . . helplessly fascinated by the ritual power of language." In Clear Pictures he comes across as a precocious Dixie dandy, worrying earnestly about God and masturbation, and toadying up to visiting artistes like the great contralto Marian Anderson by sending them portraits he had sketched from publicity stills...
...lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger. "We saw it leaning, almost falling off, and then it fell off." Neither Piedmont nor Federal Aviation Administration officials were prepared to offer an explanation last week for what caused the engine...
Helms' heroes are Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and the late Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina. His values are rooted in North Carolina's Piedmont. Monroe, whose population was 3,000 when Helms was growing up there, was profoundly conservative. Schools were segregated, and once a year flowers were placed on the graves of the Confederate war dead. Yet most townsfolk assumed that the devil was a Republican, which made it all the more shocking when Helms became the state's first G.O.P. Senator of this century...