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SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1999 03 ASHli VILLI- CITIZliN-TIMLS Where are we going this spring? Surveys trace travel trends USA TODAY After a year of scandal and impeachment from our nation's capital, there's a silver lining? All that poppycock-along-the-Potomac is over with, and suddenly Washington, D.C., is hotter than ever as a spring travel destination. One of the world's largest innkeepers, Choice Hotels International, which franchises 4,000 hotels worldwide under from 13th to fifth in Choice reservations for the spring. 'x Paris and London, for the first time, jumped into the top 20 spring destinations for Choice (12th and 13th, respectively). Todd says Americans are willing to spring for a trip to Europe airfares were rock-bottom in March or second-choice cities in the United States. ing, 'Maybe we ought to try Washington this says Choice Hotels' Bill Todd.

Meanwhile, a Travel Industry Association survey asking where people would like to go this spring put Florida at No. 1 again, but the state slipped 7 percentage points from last year, a notable drop, says spokesman Mike Pina. The District of Columbia ranks among 'the top 10 destinations. came of age during the Harlem Renaissance Ballooning and entertaining children seem to combine naturally for WNC personality might have wedged the city more, firmly in everyone's mind. The Washington, D.C., Convention and Visitors Association says it had 1.4 million hits on its Web site in February alone.

"Every single reporter on cable and network had the Capitol, White House or the Washington Monument behind them (in on-air stand-ups during the scandal cov- erage), so I think people are say Delany sisters Delany from page 01 Dee, Carroll and Anderson grew up in New York City, far from the Delanys' childhood home in Raleigh. The sibling's father, Henry Delany, born in 1853, was devoted to education and became vice principal of St Augustine's School. He was also the first black elected bishop of the Episcopal Church, He expected his children to thrive. "How can you even feed 10 children?" Hearth marvels. "But he made sure all of them went to school and became professionals." In some ways, the oldest sisters were opposites.

There was the angry one. "Bessie had a mean streak," Dee says. And there was the gentle one. "Sadie learned to smile at everything," Anderson says. As Sadie put it in the book: "Bessie was what we used to call a 'feeling' child; she was sensitive and emotional I was calm and agreeable.

The way I see it there's room in the world for both." Or, as Bessie put it: "Sadie's sugar and I'm the spice Sometimes, I think it's my meanness that keeps me going." Both found fierce collisions with the world around them. Bessie was only the second black woman to be licensed as a dentist in New York. She stuck to it passionately, at the expense of personal relationships. "You had to make a choice career or marriage," Dee says. There "was a young man who needed a wife and four children.

She couldn't do that" He continued to be her friend, a colleague in endless causes. For marriage and family, however, he turned to someone else. Meanwhile, Sadie had times when smiling must have seemed impossible. "She became the first African American to teach domestic science in New York," Anderson says. "To do that she had to avoid having an in-person interview." mm llBTjaaproiB Big losers in the TIA survey were Hawaii and Nevada, victims of the Asian economic crisis.

Hawaii dropped from third to fourth in spring destinations; Nevada, fourth to seventh. But there were upside surprises in both the TIA survey and Choice rankings. Among them: North Carolina, Which made it into the TIA survey's top 10, and Charlotte, which bounded She got the job. When she reached work the first day, the principal assigned her only reluctantly. "I fell apart inside, when we filmed that scene," Anderson says.

"As an actress I kept smiling, but as a person I just lost it I had to go walk around for a while." In Anderson's modern world, it seems unfathomable to smile through a racial slight. "Today, we would just ask for their superior or their badge number." In rich detail, Dee and Carroll created the Delanys of the '90s. "All of the characters were so dear to me," Dee says. The Delanys became pioneers in New York. Then they settled tWjMU'Mtllt1' KgNan MtdHammaa CuWiw and Argwutn Wood aM Discover th magic of a natural wood burning oven Taste and flavor of authentic Kalian Mediterranean cuisine Fresh seafood, pastas, AO Natural Black Angus Beef Re-opening April 15th Reservations Suggested 452-5222 44 Church St Waynesville Established 1988 253-2153 Asheville 22 Battery Park Ave.

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In 1959, he took the show across state to Channel 13, which had just dropped its original children's personality. Through the years, the show evolved: "Mr. Bill's Magic Bus," "Mr. Bill's Flying Circus," "Mr. Bill's Space Patrol," "Mr.

Bill and Bozo," "Mr. Bill and Bumbo." It aired mornings, afternoons and on Saturdays, when children were invited to the studio. In the end, it was Norwood alone, with a set that included his balloon. "That set is gone," he said, though it was stored for years at the station. "But I still have the (balloon) basket" Channel 13 actually launched Norwood in ballooning 20 years ago, persuading him to fly the promotional craft for the station and setting him up in business.

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"It's certainly something you don't do everyday," she said, floating at 2,000 feet over the Asheville Regional Airport. But during summer and when weather is nice, Norwood flies daily. His passengers have parachuted, proposed and even married in the balloon. Divorced for eight years, Norwood has four daughters. More television work might be ahead: He's been talking with Channel 13 about an "on-the-road" feature, similar to the famous feature by the late network newsman Charles Kuralt.

If he was asked, Norwood would consider a "Mr. Bill" reunion special. But he doesn't watch much television, other than old movies "because there's not much to watch anymore," he said. "I feel very comfortable in the studio," he said. "I don't have stage fright.

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