Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only Roy Reed's stories on the South consistently display a denser, more individualistic prose. His story on black families making a Christmas pilgrimage by train back to their old homes in the South is one of the best in the collection. Jon Nordheimer writes with a restrained power and simplicity, particularly in his forceful piece on the Congressional Medal of Honor veteran who was shot while robbing a grocery store...
Taped Voice. By law, the NTSB cannot order the FAA to take action, but it can prod hard. On Oct. 8, NTSB Chairman John H. Reed sent Butterfield an official letter about the "unprofessional conduct" demonstrated by a few U.S. flight crews. To document his concern, Reed cited a number of horrifying incidents resulting from sloppy flying in recent years-a DC-9 striking the water and then bouncing safely into the air while nearing Martha's Vineyard; airliners running into trees, cottages and a sea wall while approaching airports; a DC-9 hitting the runway so hard...
...York, Associate Editor William Smith received some 150 pages of reports and wrote the story assisted by Reporter-Researchers Sara Collins Medina and Susan Reed, who specialize in the Middle East area. For John Elson, senior editor of the World section, it was his third Middle East cover story in five weeks...
...Allan Nicholls), Sledge (William Parry) and Claw (E.G. Gibson). They are dressed in something resembling chain mail and apparently represent the Hell's Angels of the commercial music business. Billy's true bete noire is an extremely comely black temptress named Lucy. She is played by Alaina Reed, who is a richly dramatic alto and could qualify for a leading role in some other musical after Sgt. Pepper stops malingering on the road across the country...
...Reed himself admits that he has more in common with Calvin Coolidge than with Dionysus. Bacchanalian plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California...