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...about four minutes before riot-helmeted police with shotguns cleared the streets. "We moved as soon as we could," insisted Police Chief William Swing in response to mounting criticism. "Until we saw weapons, no laws had been violated." All of the dead were anti-Klan demonstrators: Sandra Smith of Piedmont, S.C., and Caesar Cauce, William Samson and Jim Waller, residents of Greensboro. Wounded were two Klansmen and eight demonstrators, including Bermanzohn. Police arrested 14 people, including two marchers and twelve Klansmen. The Klan members were charged with murder. One demonstrator was charged with inciting to riot, the other with interfering...
Meredyth, near Middleburg, Va., has been growing hybrids only since 1975 and already produces 85,000 bottles a year. Says Owner Archie Smith: "We're selling almost as quickly as we can get it out." Nearby Piedmont is the state's first commercial vinifera winery, and expects to double its capacity over the next two years. Both Meredyth and Piedmont used to be cattle farms. Says Piedmont's manager, Jim Cockrell, 35, who over the past four years oversaw the transition from cattle farm to vineyard: "It sure beats milking cows twice...
...airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
There is the Pearl of the Piedmont, a wide-eyed innocent come to seek her fortune in bustling Charlotte, N.C., and living with her pal, the cheerleader Sis Boombah. There is Mary Ann Singleton, newly arrived in San Francisco and immediately caught up in that city's often kinky lifestyles. In Des Moines, the heroine is Farm Girl Probity Prisswillow who, knowing not what she does, takes a job in a massage parlor. Baby Jill...
...club explained that its ballroom was being refurbished, but Atlantans figured the real reason was that Leontyne Price, a black soprano, was to sing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Met Director Rudolph Bing let it be known that if Price was not invited to the Piedmont dinner, no member of the company would attend...