Word: piedmonte
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...judge, of course, is Attorney General-designate Griffin Bell. The cause of Tarver's outrage was the coast-to-coast outcry over the fact that Bell and two other top-level Jimmy Carter appointees belong to Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, which bars membership to blacks and Jews (the other appointees: Atlanta Banker Bert Lance, Carter's proposed budget director, and Houston Businessman Charles Duncan Jr., a former Atlanta resident who was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense). Bell and Lance have promised to resign, but at week's end Duncan had not yet decided what...
...Piedmont, Member Jack Spalding, editor of the Atlanta Journal, explains, "About the only way you can be assured of getting a membership is to be a son of a member." Ironically, the three Carter appointees are exceptions-all are self-made...
...when he endorsed Carswell, he was not aware that Carswell had once made a strongly pro-segregationist speech. Yet the speech was widely reported at the time, as he later conceded. He also waffled when questioned about his membership in two Atlanta clubs-the Capital City Club and the Piedmont Driving Club-that have not admitted blacks or Jews as members. Bell announced that he would quit the clubs only after Carter had made it clear that he hoped Bell would do so. (Budget Director-designate Bert Lance and Charles Kirbo, Carter's closest political adviser, are also members...
...Carter has a well-established record. While serving as Governor of Georgia, he managed to block the Army - although it was supported by the state legislature, previous Governors and Georgia congressmen - from constructing a dam that would have impeded the Flint River, the last free-flowing river in the Piedmont section of the state. Carter also fought successfully to help preserve Georgia's coastline and wetlands. He established a Heritage Trust Commission to preserve choice natural areas, as well as historical and cultural sites. While reorganizing the state government, Carter combined the state's environmental agencies into...
Racing is the down home sport of North Carolina. The tapeworm roads that swing through the Piedmont hills seem designed for it, and until this decade they were used for exactly that by moonshiners. Almost every male over 14 shyly admits to a little informal dark-of-night racing experience. California teen-agers get high on laughing gas; their peers in North Carolina prefer the 150 h.p. bursts of acceleration that a bottle of nitrous oxide delivers when attached to a sedan's air filter...