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...progressivism its spokesmen in Atlanta's Jewish may or, Sam Massell, and black vice mayor, Maynard Jackson. Atlanta, the South's showcase, has built skyscrapers and an enlightened image alongside black slums that are well on the way to duplicating the misery and hopelessness of ghettos in Northern cities. Savannah rebuilds its historic colonial neighborhoods while the city fathers worry that air pollution is killing the Spanish moss. The ear of memory rings with the voices of two Georgians who articulated the state's opposites: Racist Demagogue Eugene Talmadge, who once said, "The Negro belongs to an inferior race...
...National Railroad Passenger Corp., called Amtrak, began its service. In the interests of efficiency, Amtrak eliminated nearly 200 trains. Among the casualties were some that had become legendary-the Wabash Cannonball from St. Louis to Detroit, the Capitol Limited from Washington to Chicago, the Nancy Hanks II from Savannah to Atlanta. Dozens of other great trains, such as the Twentieth Century Limited and the Phoebe Snow between Hoboken, N.J., and Chicago, had already vanished. What remains of rail service may become better than ever, as Amtrak promises rather unconvincingly, but the special mythic quality has been lost on the wind...
...Ralph Nader may have discovered perpetual motion. Now in his sixth year as the nation's foremost consumer champion, he is busier than ever, speaking on campuses, recruiting raiders and issuing reports. In recent months Nader and his associates have released studies on pollution of the Savannah River, the condition of nursing homes, and nationwide water pollution. Two investigations have resulted in books: One Life, One Physician and What to Do -An Action Manual for Lemon Owners. Forthcoming, among other things, are reports on occupational health and safety, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, and California land...
Indigenous Innovation. The region, adjoining industrial Savannah, Ga., lost an immediate source of new tax revenue, but it gained a broad land-use plan that could order and enhance future development...
...probably create just as many," he says, "it would take at least ten to 15 years to do it." Galston's far more subtle plan calls for protecting the environment by welcoming light industry around major existing towns inland. Heavy industry would be confined to the environs of Savannah...