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...TIME's most revered traditions, including this very page. Though Trillin now tries to pretend that Floater is "made up," he in fact gathered inside information during nearly three years on TIME's staff. In 1960, after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army, he joined the Atlanta bureau, reporting on the civil rights movement. He then moved to New York, where he became a "floater," writing for various sections of the magazine as needed. To avoid Religion stories, he has said, he attached the word "alleged" to every event of religious significance, as in "the alleged Crucifixion...
BUDDY NIX, 53, ATLANTA: Gun Watcher Georgia's brand-new Instant Gun Check is a success--with one loophole. If Georgia Bureau of Investigation phones are down for one business day, any applicant can get a gun--no questions asked. When a two-day blizzard shut down Atlanta last month, GBI director Nix arranged for stranded phone operators to be driven in by four-wheel drives. During that period, 24 would-be purchasers turned out to be convicted felons...
...January 29 letter to Reno, the NAACP had asked Reno to investigate, charging the frequency and similarity of the fires "make it difficult to rule out the likelihood that at least some of the fires were racially motivated acts of vandalism." "This certainly catches people's eyes here," says Atlanta Bureau chief Adam Cohen. "It's the kind of an issue that really resonates in the South, where a lot of black churches were burned during the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Southerners are certainly pleased with the decision to investigate, but it's too early to tell...
...Team Foxcatcher wrestlers and had been intent on making an Olympic comeback. Schultz won the 1984 Olympic freestyle gold medal in his 163-lb. weight class. He was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in his weight class and seemed assured of a spot on the U.S. team in Atlanta this summer. Acquaintances had seen few signs of trouble between Schultz and Du Pont before the shooting. "Dave Schultz was John's best friend," says Pauline Gostigian, a neighbor who spoke to Schultz hours before the shooting. "Dave would have done anything...
...this new invention is how to enhance the two organizations' core reporting with multimedia elements, such as TIME's graphics and photos and CNN's audio and video feeds. That challenge belongs to Washington associate producer Donna Freydkin, who joined Riley from her job at CNN Interactive in Atlanta. "Here you have everything," says Freydkin. "Those memorable scenes you see once on TV can be seen here over and over again...