Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like most black Americans, my roots are in the South. " So writes TIME Atlanta Correspondent Jack White, 30, who reported on many of the stories in this issue before taking nine months'leave for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Here is White's personal account of being brought up under segregation...
...principals and a secretary) advertising agency. As late as 1973 its billings were $6.3 million; this year they are expected to hit $30 million. In 1975 the agency picked up three Clios, the advertising equivalents of Hollywood Oscars. Last week it swiped Coca-Cola's national Fresca account from New York-based Interpublic...
...food demand to grow faster than the rest of the nation's. Cotton has declined in importance as a cash crop, but the slack has been taken up by other products: citrus fruit in Florida, sugar cane and rice in Louisiana. Southern soybean harvests are expected to account for 30% of the U.S. production in 1985, up from 27% in 1970. By 1985, Southern livestock farms will be producing nearly a third of all U.S beef cattle...
...years ago, Frix used his $5,000 savings account to make a down payment on 300 acres in Talbotton Ga. about 90 miles south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part...
...blatant signs of discrimination are past. "Whites simply don't pay much attention to blacks," he observes. He himself is assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School (the first black in the seminary's administration), but he notes that "it is difficult to get seminaries to take into account that black Christians existed and do exist." Smith is disappointed that some young blacks have become converts to other religions-the Black Muslims, for instance. Still, he believes that in the South the number of black youths in the Christian churches is about the same as it was ten years...