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...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 in the beautiful rolling hills of the Appalachians resembles that in Tennessee and West Virginia. With the exception of Dalton (carpet industry) and Gainesville (chicken...
...million movie has been seen by no one and will not be until its release in June. But judging by the script, Mankiewicz did indeed give Burton a playable part. Since most of the scripting took place as Cleopatra was being shot, Writer Mankiewicz?in his approach to each character???knew just whose brain, tongue, and talent he was writing for, and it is not surprising that Burton has the most interesting role. Much of the time, too, Mankiewicz appears to be describing Burton as well as the Antony of history. "There is something about Antony which escapes...
Almost every college has its campus character???a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
Personal Loans. "Character???the best collateral on earth"?Robert B. Umberger, vice-president, Personal Loan & Savings Bank, Chicago...
...President also wrote Captain Fried a note: "This incident has added lustre to the record of our Navy, in which you, Captain Fried, were trained, and to the ability and character???of the American merchant marine...