Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personnel from 7,384 to 2,880, the election payroll from $127,797 to $73,870, and the man-hours required to tabulate the vote from 52,573 to 5,781-even while the total vote rose by more than 15% over the last previous election. >Fulton County (Atlanta), Ga., is one of several that has used a nifty little number called the IBM Votomatic. Invented by Dr. Joseph P. Harris, a retired University of California political science professor, it weighs a mere 6 Ibs. and costs $185 per unit (against $1,800 for the present automatic voting machines, which...
...appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...
...Macon, Ga...
Elsewhere, the road ahead looks equally bright. There is not a single stop light on the highways linking Cleveland to Boston (650 miles), St. Louis to Wichita Falls, Texas (658), and Macon, Ga., to Miami (580). The record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...
...million hotel and shopping-center boom along its right of way. On I-94, which carries Detroit-Chicago traffic across 218 miles of southern Michigan, five shopping centers, 19 motels and 39 restaurants have been built around the road's 130 interchanges. The case of Valdosta, Ga. (pop. 32,700), is typical: when a section of I-75 opened three years ago, the city found itself in the mainstream of Atlanta-Miami traffic, ever since has enjoyed a tourist boom that has created new jobs in motels, restaurants and gas stations...