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SOUTHERN history books, says our Atlanta bureau chief, Joseph Kane, contain many references to dastardly "Yankee journalists" who went South to feed on the carcass of the vanquished Confederacy. The antipathy has lingered into modern times. But in reporting for this week's cover story on the new South and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, Kane found as one sign of evolution a moderating attitude toward the press: "Even the courthouse gangs that run local politics are becoming more tolerant of itinerant reporters...
...TIME cover staffers, however, could not have been considered carpetbaggers even in the old days. Rather they lived in Dixie through its years of great change. Kane grew up in Washington, D.C., while it was "still very much a Southern town," he recalls. "When my high school eventually took its first black student, the football team had to travel to Pennsylvania and even West Virginia to play." After working in Detroit, Kane served as our Miami correspondent for a year, then moved to the Atlanta bureau. This week's assignment, which he describes as an "attempt to shed light...
Peter Range, who shared the reporting duties with Kane, is a native Georgian. At age nine, he served as a page in the state house of representatives. He left the South-and the U.S.-in 1967, determined to become a foreign correspondent. He did, in TIME's Bonn bureau. Three years later he returned to more familiar territory as a staff correspondent based in Atlanta...
They plan to coach the team again next year, and most of this year's team will be back. Anthony J. Kane '71. who has a Harvard letter in rowing, has been coxswain for the season, but the rules of the Nationals require the team to find a female replacement...
...group that last year helped organize Earth Day, is conducting an "ecotage" (for ecology and sabotage) contest. First prize for the best suggestion on how to tame polluters is a trip to Washington to receive a "Golden Fox" trophy. It is named for the famous "Fox" of Kane County, Ill. (TIME, Oct. 5), an anonymous ecoguerrilla who has conducted a colorful battle against polluters by blocking factory smokestacks and sewers and sloshing a corporate office with smelly piles of fish and river muck...