"The book that goes inside a General Motors Corporation automotive assembly plant, all the way to the factory floor. Here is the story of the men and women of the Norwood Assembly Plant, all the way from the first car produced in 1923 to the 8 millionth and the last car off the line in 1987. From the 'B' body to the 'F' car in never before revealed photographs, production data, and personal recollections, all providing a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the automotive industry during the halcyon era of domestic automotive production."--Back cover.

Captain Davd Barfield prepares for a short notice deployment of a composite Air Force squadron to Vietnam. The news is unsettling because of the present hurdles encountered with his marriage. He must leave at a time when he knows it could be devastating to his relationship with Leslie and their future. The deployment gets of to a rocky start with his immediate encounter with the misson planning by the Operations Officer and the Commanding Officer. He tries to maintain a loyalty to this quickly formed unit and relies heavily on his co-pilot and friend, Zack Williams. David’s newly formed crew and “B” flight undergo the metamorphous of personality adjustments. Bonded quickly by the rigors of the mission and the requirements of Lieutenant Colonel Norwood, they become a cohesive group. After flying half-way around the world, the squadron lands at DaNang, Vietnam, and are assigned operationally to the First Air Commando Group. The living is harsh, with eight Officers to a tent, and only the rudiments of human conveniences. The mission assignments require maximum flying skill in the mountainous regions of the I Corps area, as they support the Special Forces. Their are stringent and ridiculous requirements, established by the Squadron Commander, has a drastic effect upon morale in the unit. His puppet Operations Officer does nothing to alleviate the oppressive requirements or the missions which place the crews in harms way daily. The story is a study in the dynamics of personalities engaged in war and rebellion. After the loss of a crew from David’s flight to hostile fire, he rebels against the Colonels egotistic requirements. His flight, loyal to David, also begin to defy the system and the chain of command. This only places ‘B” flight in the position of being assigned the most hazardous missions. This comes to a head as David accuses the Commanding Officer of the deaths in the unit. He knows there will be retribution from this dangerous man who is devoid of integrity. David writes Leslie that there is hope for their marriage and she indicates she agrees. The letters keep the ties and love together during this six-month deployment. Zack Williams, faces his own conundrums of life. His father, from whom he is estranged, has cancer with only a few months to live. He tries to sort his life and the love he left behind, realizing he will resign his commission as soon as they get back to the States. David is goaded into a dangerous mission by Colonel Norwood that has severe consequences. The mission haunts David, even after returning to the States. Here he must recuperate his body, his spirit, and his marriage. The conflict requires difficult decisions about his future. The resolutions changes his life.

Pause for a spell to visit with the remarkable inhabitants of Greenwood Cemetery. Greenwood Cemetery is resplendent in its gardenlike setting, gently rolling hills, sharply edged bluffs, impressively carved monuments and row after row of military gravestones. It is a social laboratory that helps those get to know who was here before and what their families wish future generations to remember about them. Visitors can find heroes and villains, mayors, bankers, industrialists, the well-to-do, and the forgotten. Some monuments are fascinating simply for their carved angels, others poignant in their descriptions of lives cut short. Indeed, all the markers have a story to tell. The most notable among them are included in this book. Stroll through Greenwood with Dr. Gary Joiner and learn a thing or two about those who rest here.

Tracing the life of Sir Cyril Norwood, one of England's most prominent and influential educators, this book investigates the historical development of secondary education in England and Wales during the early Twentieth century.

Pomp, circumstance, and murder mark the graduation ceremony at Marcus Rome State University. Famed philanthropist and commencement speaker, Douglas Norwood, lies dead. There is no apparent motive. A cryptic message to a local television station provides many questions but few answers. Sergeant Tom Warren and the campus police are faced with the grim task of untangling the mess. University President Norman Mulholland wants a solution fast, and appoints mathematics professor Jim Albright to serve as liaison between him and the police. In an unconventional move, Warren and Albright enlist a group of amateur sleuths composed of Albright's sexy psychologist wife, Donna; eccentric mathematical genius Elmo Sherwin and his wife, Michelle; and Mulholland himself to work with Warren. With the exception of the president, this is the same group that pinpointed another campus murderer three years earlier (see Math Is Murder). The team soon learns the crime is more complicated than it first appeared, and watches with growing anxiety as the university's situation deteriorates. Will they be able to solve this mystery in time to prevent more carnage? The clues in this whodunit are everywhere. It's up to the investigative team and the reader to find them. The problem is recognizing them.

The first white intruders in the area north of the Great Divide to the Murray River drained by the Goulburn, Loddon and Wimmera rivers were cattle and sheep ‘overlanders’ from the Sydney-side searching for green pastures in drought-affected NSW and a route to South Australia. Echo 76: THE NORTHERN CONQUEST – Drover’s accounts of overlanding sets the scene for the later Echo 83: REVIEWING THE FAITHFULL MASSACRE, WANGARATTA AND SCOURING THE OVENS. With a military escort, the wife of the Governor of VD Land Lady Jane Franklin wrote travel diaries and letters of her visit to Melbourne and ‘tour’ of Australia Felix in 1839. Sounding 5 introduces the journals of Protector Dredge camping with the Goulburn clans and is followed by Echo 79: THE HUTTON & MUNRO AFFAIRS, being the invasion of Djadja Wurrung country as revealed in Chief Protector Robinson’s journal for January 1840. This leads into Parker’s Mount Franklin Protectorate Station combined with shire history snippets of Maryborough, Avoca and Boort before a section on the Djadja Wurrung who survived colonization. Another group of shire histories cover Kyabram, Shepparton, Murchison, Benalla, Tallangatta, Benambra and Bendigo areas before Ian D Clark’s depiction of the box-ironbark forests and pre-1840s Aboriginal land tenure in north-central Victoria. Included here is an ecological section on ‘fire-stick farming’ replaced by agri-business. The fate of the Goulburn tribe, the Taungurong clans, and pioneer Carter’s early days on the Wimmera lead to echo 87: ORIENTING THE WERGAIA WIMMERA-MALLEE CLANS and then to EBENEZER – archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission Station. Sounding 5 closes with an echo on the bush-life experiences of battler William Kyle and for contrast reveals the dispossession role played by wealthy land speculators in echo 90: BEN BOYD – Royal Yacht Squadron Slaver.