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...Playboys. "There's a sustained drive here that retains a sense of values," says Editor Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution. "It's not the Houston gogo; the drive is here but the brashness is not." Much of Atlanta's stability under change comes from its business leaders, such as Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's retired chairman, and Richard Rich of Rich's, the South's largest department store, who have long made no-nonsense civic enterprise an Atlanta tradition. "This is not a playboy's town...
...cultural leaders. The city recently suffered a setback of another kind when voters turned down an $80 million bond issue to finance a wide variety of home county improvements, including an elaborate cultural center. Last week the leaders were blaming the defeat only on themselves. Said Editor Patterson: "It was overconfidence. We had succeeded for so long I thought we couldn't fail. Therefore we didn't spell it out to the voters the way we should have. Next time we'll do it right." On the basis of past performances, there seems every chance that they...
...nation's two big bowling manufacturers seem to get along about as well as two tomcats in an alley. "Competition is vigorous and unimpeded," says Brunswick Corp. President Benjamin E. Bensinger, 56. Says his archrival, American Machine & Foundry Co. Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64: "Competition has been fierce and sanguinary." Thus it came as a surprise last week when Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the two in a Manhattan federal court. The charge: that AMF and Brunswick had conspired with each other, and with the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America, to restrain trade...
...orders, but only for sound business reasons, and both denied any conspiracy. Since Brunswick sells most of its equipment on credit, aggressive "Ted" Bensinger insists that the company has the right "before accepting any order to make sure a proposed bowling center can be operated profitably." Soft-spoken Morehead Patterson, whose AMF generally leases its pin spotters for a percentage of the income, also concedes that AMF turns away poor business risks. "We want our proprietors to make money," he says. "If they don't, then we don't get paid." Neither man would say how much business...
...Justice Department's action was complicated this week by the sudden death from a heart attack of AMF's Morehead Patterson in Washington...