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WITH enlightened civic leadership and one of the nation's fastest-climbing skylines, Atlanta rode the urban-renewal wave of the '60s with pleasing-and well-publicized-results. But where many other cities have grown disillusioned with their downtown business districts-in spite of all the new civic centers, office buildings, freeways and other signs of progress-Atlanta, which in 1970 became 51% black in population, seems determined to use the first round of renewal as the down payment on a second, even bigger round in the '70s. Moreover, the courtly businessmen and politicians who engineered...
Atlanta's metropolitan population has doubled, to 1,400,000, in 15 years, and the area continues to be one of the fastest-growing in the nation. Much of the expansion is due to the fact that Atlanta is the key commercial center within a radius of nearly 600 miles. Companies eager to tap the South's expanding consumer and industrial markets headquartered their regional operations in Atlanta, making it the ultimate branch-office town. No fewer than 430 of the FORTUNE 500 largest U.S. companies have offices in Atlanta. Recent arrivals include National Distribution Services...
...after 17 years and one more child, that family paraphrase has grown into perhaps the world's fastest-selling Bible. Since the publication of the complete Old and New Testaments last August, The Living Bible (Tyndale House-Doubleday; $9.95) has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. Billy Graham has ordered 600,000 special paperback versions for an autumn television crusade...
...Frenchman with a Tahitian beauty as his fiancee and the sea as his mistress, Colas was ashore in Newport, sipping a heady mixture of champagne and acclaim. Colas (pronounced Kola) had crossed the finish line 20 days, 1 3 hours and 15 minutes after the start, for the fastest - by more than five days - winning time in the four quadrennial races held to date. In his ugly duckling of a boat, the 70-ft. by 35-ft. aluminum trimaran Pen Duick IV, Colas had averaged about 150 nautical miles a day for the 3,000-mile voyage, covering 260 miles...
...bookkeeping. Broad quickly sensed that rich rewards awaited anyone who could bring order to the splintered, untidy, often wasteful world of home building. Within months, the accountant and the contractor formed Kaufman and Broad Building Co. and laid the foundation for one of the industry's fastest-growing giants...