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...Piedmont plateau in central Georgia is the most populous region of the state. Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Athens are the population centers, and snaking away from them along the railroads and riverbeds is the ma jority of the state's industry: the textile factories of the Chattahoochee Valley, the more sophisticated automobile assembly plants, mobile home manufacturers, apparel and food-processing plants. The Piedmont gives the state much of its new character?aggressiveness, prosperity, a willingness to homogenize its traditions in search of the economic mainstream. The North Georgia mountains have steeped a third element into Georgia. Life...
...happen. Item: In California, a man combined a secret job and welfare for an annual income of $16,800. Item: a regulation-wise hippie commune in Berkeley reconstituted itself into eight paper "households" and collected $1,000 a month in aid. Item: a group of middle-class suburbanites in Piedmont, Calif., where county rules require only identification and a statement of need before aid is issued, dramatized their displeasure with the system by easily getting onto the rolls at several offices. But the fact is that chicanery accounts for a very small part of welfare's cost. The last...
...trimming its schedules and turning over lightly traveled routes to the largely nonunionized air taxi lines, the so-called "third-level carriers." The union is worried about the trend, and estimates, perhaps with some exaggeration, that 1,000 ALPA jobs have been lost through such transfers. But as Piedmont Airlines President Tom Davis puts it, "ALPA itself is responsible for pricing us out of the small-town market. We can't afford to take those crews in those jets into the smaller towns, so we are turning them over to the third-level carriers. Now they...
...Barbara Whitner, 33, a petite Piedmont, Calif., housewife and former volunteer social worker, is not against welfare. Indeed, as she told a recent budget hearing of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, she wants to preserve public assistance for those who really need it. But in California, where a newspaper expose showed that dozens of state and county officials had contrived to get themselves on welfare, the poor are often left by the wayside. Mrs. Whitner was enraged...
...youths, checked hospital and medical records, even found a secret witness-a scared young white man who was in the station house at the time of the beating. As the two were fitting the pieces together, another incident came up. During a rock concert in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, a plainclothesman clubbed and beat a hippie he was trying to place under arrest. Mickie and Teddi went out with their tape recorders, eventually incorporated this incident into their program...