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...spectators jokingly advised that they cancel the fourth round and declare the Golden Bear winner by a T.K.O. An Atlanta newsman suggested that the Augusta National Golf Club could save money by not awarding the traditional green blazer to the victor, and instead adding hash marks to the Bear's sleeves. Lee Trevino, still yappy despite a mediocre performance of his own, could hardly contain his admiration: "He's gone. He's a freak. That's what I told him. He might even beat two people. Beat their best ball. Nobody'll beat...
...North Augusta...
There is already some of that. In Richmond, resistance to the desegregation order is in its seventh week. A white boycott of Augusta, Ga., schools last week left classrooms virtually empty, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter endorsed a one-day, statewide boycott to be held next week in sympathy. The Florida legislature drafted an antibusing proposition to be voted on in the March 14 primary. Governor Reubin Askew countered by adding to the ballot a question asking Floridians, however they feel about busing, to assert their commitment to equal opportunity for all races. Thus a presidential primary will incorporate...
...only slightly more inspired "Delta is ready when you are." Instead of grasping only for the glamour routes, Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. The airline's success has paralleled the rapid growth of the South. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has become the third busiest commercial airport in the world-after Chicago's O'Hare and the Los Angeles International Airport-and much of the traffic belongs to Delta...
...Piedmont plateau in central Georgia is the most populous region of the state. Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Athens are the population centers, and snaking away from them along the railroads and riverbeds is the ma jority of the state's industry: the textile factories of the Chattahoochee Valley, the more sophisticated automobile assembly plants, mobile home manufacturers, apparel and food-processing plants. The Piedmont gives the state much of its new character?aggressiveness, prosperity, a willingness to homogenize its traditions in search of the economic mainstream. The North Georgia mountains have steeped a third element into Georgia. Life...