Word: macon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drummer Artimus Pyle's recent target was the Macon Hilton, which failed to Include sugar with his room-service order of iced tea. "First I demolished the louvered doors," he recalls. "I tried to throw the TV out the window, but it wouldn't fit. So I splintered everything else." He sighs: "Whew, it always feels better without that tension...
...some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift by building its first U.S-based integrated assembly plant there...
...BILLY JOE, an extrapolation on Bobbie Gentry's 1967 back-country ballad about the young boy who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, is a nice surprise. Director Max Baer (Macon County Line) has a good, close feeling for the rural South, and the movie-shot on location in Mississippi-is careful about people, sharp in selecting and using details of landscape: hushed green fields, a sinuous, umbilical river, a house perched on the edge of woods as if waiting to be enfolded in the trees. Herman Raucher's screenplay concerns the real reason Billy Joe threw himself...
...after the introductory handshake; and, federal campaign spending regulations notwithstanding, his grass-roots campaign is at a distinct financial disadvantage to those of other "liberal" Democratic candidates because Carter has relatively few fatcat backers). And his friendship with the Allman Brothers Band and other Capricorn Recording artists out of Macon is, it seems, genuine, if highly profitable of late--the four Carter benefits scheduled to date may net up to $200,000, with ticket stubs serving as proof of donation that will make Carter eligible for matching federal funds in January, Rolling Stone reported last week...
...Capricorn-Carter courtship began, legend around Atlanta has it, when the newly-elected governor paid Phil Walden, the Macon rock mogul, a visit, promising the nascent Georgia recording industry protection from tape-making copyright pirates. Carter got tight with Gregg Allman, Dicky Betts et al when they showed up late--5 a.m.--at the Governor's Mansion for a post-concert get-together that Carter hosted for Bob Dylan, the Band and the "Brothers...