Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just a Gorilla...
...your obituary of our beloved Mayor Emeritus William B. Hartsfield [March 8] you stated, "After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator)." During his lifetime, Mayor Emeritus Hartsfield consistently refused to allow the city to honor him in some substantive way. Now, however, the nation's fourth busiest airport is called the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta Airport...
Political silence. Intellectuals have a way of selling out the people politically as well as artistically. When Peron was overthrown by the "Gorilla" junta of the oligarchy, with 300 killed in the streets by aerial bombardment, "those who could write had nothing to say," Today in Argentina those nationalist intellectuals who have not lost touch with the masses (like Solanas and many of the guerrillas he interviews) are either exiled or underground...
...heart attack; in Atlanta. Following an untraditional policy of racial moderation, Hartsfield guided his city through turbulent years of integration in the 1950s with the slogan "Atlanta is a city too busy to hate." After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator), but Atlantans recognized that he had influenced the city's development more than any other person in modern times...
...Gorilla pimp. A user of strong-arm tactics to get and keep prostitutes...