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...family portraits and mementos of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, but he did manage to salvage top-secret documents from the embassy. In 1978 the FBI investigated his handling of the files, but the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute. Martin, 72, has retired to Winston-Salem, N.C. He does not believe the war had to end in such a disastrous manner. "Had President Nixon served out his term," he says, "South Viet Nam would today be an independent, viable nation...
...more than 1,700 participants from 45 nations paraded past, many in wheelchairs, others on crutches. Among them were delegations from Poland, Hungary and East Germany, all countries that are boycotting the Summer Games. Reagan passed a flaming Olympic torch to Swimmer Jan Wilson, 28, an amputee from Winston-Salem, N.C., and said, "You are proving that a disability doesn't have to stand in the way of a full and active life...
Harvard in the 1950s was a place where students could go to Sanders Theater and listen to a serious debate on the merits of desegregation. Arguing for the negative, a visiting journalist from the Winston-Salem Journal insisted, "Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually." His opponent, Thurgood Marshall, went on to prove him wrong in the year of my father's graduation, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of a Topeka schoolgirl named Linda Brown...
Retta and Charles Gray Winston-Salem...
...Hills-based American Medical International (1982 revenues: $1.4 billion), the leading cause of death in the area was automobile accidents. But since Frye was not equipped to handle neurological injuries, as many as 540 accident victims a year had to be transported 65 miles to Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Today Frye boasts a complete neurology and neurosurgery staff. Says Jean Settlemyre, A.M.I.'s vice president for nursing, who was herself born at Frye: "Only with money could you do that...