Word: successful
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...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...
...particular problem for the South's Republican Party, which as recently as 1972 showed promise of providing the region, at long last, with a genuine two-party system. Dwight Eisenhower, national hero, had brought respectability to Southern Republicanism in 1952, carrying Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. His success signaled at least the beginning of the end for "yellow-dog democracy," in which, or so it was said, Southerners would vote for a yellow dog if it were nominated by the Democratic Party. By the late 1950s, efforts by Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern industries caused something of a political backlash...
RESTLESS RAY. As Ray Banner sees it, there are two reasons for his success: he started with nothing, and he is short. A thin, brown-haired version of Mickey Rooney, he could not do much about his stature (5 ft. 6 in.). But at 51, Banner has parlayed fast-food franchises into a personal fortune of $25 million. From his headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., he runs 231 Shoney's Big Boy outlets in eleven states. He also owns the 19 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises for central Kentucky and is starting new chains of his own. Most promising: Captain...
...partner, a grocery store in Louisville and, after selling the store, purchased a bowling alley, then a drive-in movie. Finally, in 1958 Banner seized the chance to buy the Nashville franchise for Shoney's Big Boy, a sort of Howard Johnson's featuring double hamburgers. His success with Big Boys led to another with Kentucky Fried Chicken. By 1971, when Shoney's Southern franchiser wanted to sell, Banner was ready...
Smith is a man with a vision, and he spends a good deal of his time and money attempting, with varying degrees of success, to impart it to others...