Word: piedmonte
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Cecil Dawkins, a handsome 36-year-old woman graduate of the University of Alabama, falls within most of these categories. Her special region is the inland South and the primitive or recessive social types of the trans-Appalachian Piedmont. Within her limits, she is very good indeed...
...Allegheny, Bonanza, Central, Frontier, Lake Central, Mohawk, North Central, Ozark, Pacific, Piedmont, Southern, Trans-Texas and West Coast...
...economic powers in the Industrial Piedmont Cities of Charlotte, Greenville, and Greensboro, in the inland trade centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...
...narrow dirt road runs near U.S. 50, close to Middleburg, Va. As it comes to a dead end, a green-painted plank gate on the left bars the entrance to a private byway named Segregation Lane, which runs along the zealously observed boundary between the hunt territories of the Piedmont Fox Hounds and the Orange County Hunt. Beyond the green gate, on Rattlesnake Mountain,* armed U.S. Secret Service agents live in green G.I. tents, keeping 24-hour guard around a still-uncompleted country home. When the home is finished, about April 1, Jack and Jackie Kennedy will move...
...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...