At the World Championship Cutting Competition, held last month inasuburban Atlanta parking lot, Gary Bond, a 48-year-old maintenance worker who named his knife "Bruiser, " was among the strongest contenders to knock out Mr. Phillips.
In 1950, at the beginning of the post-World War II suburban boom, the city of Raleigh had a population of 66, 000, living ina land area of only 11 square miles.