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DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 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...
Some other would-be social bridges have been campaigning, with varying degrees of zeal, for roles as certified Carter hostesses. One of them is Vicki Bagley, wife of an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Vicki, 33, and Husband Smith Bagley, 41, moved to Washington from Winston-Salem, N.C., almost two years ago. They paid $650,000 for a big house in Georgetown, added a tennis court and other amenities, and eventually carved themselves a niche as big Carter boosters. It clicked. Says Vicki: "Six months after we were here, we were associated with Carter and all the dinnerparty invitations...
...term has infiltrated the language, carrying nuances not found in Fowler's Modern English Usage, shadings understood instinctively by Southerners but often baffling to armchair linguists beyond the Mason-Dixon line. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote this report on what is-and is not-a good...
...recently as a generation ago, a job for a woman was unthinkable in most upper-and middle-class Southern white homes. Today, with urbanization, feminism, television and sheer economic pinch all playing a part, it is routine. Lynn McColl, 38, of Winston-Salem, became a schoolteacher when financial misfortune struck her family in the late '60s. "Now it's not essential that I work -except to me," she says. "My husband is very supportive. He is just a prince of a man." More and more, Southern women work as telephone linemen, ministers, welders, lawyers and executives. Barriers...
Lynn Rosellini, 29, was recommended by the Washington Star for a Pulitzer Prize for her four-part series on homosexuality in sports, a topic male reporters have generally avoided. Mary Garber, 60, has been covering sports for the Winston-Salem Journal since 1944, and colleagues agree that she is the toughest interviewer in town...