Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorney General Griffin Bell had argued for months that his own people in the Justice Department could objectively investigate the loans, upwards of $4.6 million, made by Bert Lance's Atlanta bank to the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains, Ga. It was a hard argument to sustain. Not only was Bell a Democrat, of course, but he was an old friend of the Carters' and of Lance. Faced with increasing criticism, Bell last week finally decided to put the probe into other hands. His choice was highly qualified: Paul Jerome Curran, 45, who not only is a Republican...
Although a dozen FBI agents were assigned in January to probe the circumstances surrounding the bank loans, they bypassed Hayes until he had given a series of taped interviews to the Washington Post, which printed them last week. The Atlanta FBI chief immediately got a hotwire telephone call from Washington. Hours later, a pair of agents were on their way to interview the talkative source...
...sense of press irresponsibility persists. You can hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...York Yankees 2, Atlanta...
Prices of 73.5? per gal. for unleaded were common in Miami last week, as were 77.9? per gal. in Atlanta and 78.9? per gal. in Jackson, Miss. Dealers in New Jersey were asking 71.9? per gal. for unleaded, and in New York City 88.9? per gal. for unleaded was posted on at least one pump. In Chicago a gallon of Amoco premium unleaded has been going for 96.9? per gal., up 5? in a month. Says a philosophical Mobil station manager in Manhattan: "Customers get upset, but they pay anyway. They grumble, but what can they...