Word: raleigh
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...German lines on D day, and the only person ever to win a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate, Strom Thurmond appears tanned and ready to run for an unprecedented eighth term. "He is a fascinating man, and too easily discounted," reports TIME's Lisa H. Towle from Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't think there is a South Carolinian alive today who has not received a letter from him. When you graduate from high school, he sends you a letter. Everybody." It is Thurmond's service to his constituents and his attention to detail which make...
...snowstorm that hit the Eastern states early last week? So big that in each new place it bulldozed over, it toppled a different historical precedent. In New York City they compared it to the great storm of 1947. In Boston it was the blizzard of 1978. In Raleigh, North Carolina, the snow of 1989. That won't happen next time. Whenever they do their recollecting, January 1996 will be the Last Big Storm for the entire East Coast...
Burmeister, for one, is "a complete white supremacist," asserted Christine Menseau, the woman who rented the room to him, in an interview with the Raleigh News & Observer. "My husband and I believe the races should be separated, but [Burmeister] went way beyond that." According to the Washington Post, Burmeister also hung around a handful of other soldiers, secret skinheads, during off-hours. They wore red suspenders and used white laces in their black boots to mark themselves as a select group. Burmeister had moved in with Menseau and her husband in June because he couldn't get along with...
ELLIS, A PROMINENT RALEIGH LAWYER who has described himself as an "unofficial kibitzer" with the Forbes campaign, was unsuccessfully nominated to the Board for International Broadcasting in the same year as Forbes. At the confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1983, Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Ellis had promoted segregation while he was counsel to the North Carolina Advisory Commission on Education in the 1950s. Ellis wrote at the time that the goal of school integration was "racial intermarriage and disappearance of the Negro race by fusing it into the white." Ellis later withdrew his name from...
...North Carolina newspapers, Ellis has boasted of the role he and Wrenn are playing in the Forbes campaign, telling the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh that "as far as the nuts and bolts of the campaign, Carter is doing it all." Forbes, for his part, genially downplays the roles of Wrenn and Ellis, remarking that Ellis "occasionally sends a note, maybe once a month," while Wrenn is nothing more than the office administrator. "I even had his head off this morning because the faxes weren't working properly," Forbes says. When asked why a man who has managed major state...