Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Joseph Boyce in Atlanta...
There is growing evidence that Carter's popularity has eroded in the South. One poll showed him losing to Ted Kennedy in his native Georgia. "Carter is like a man without a country," said Pollster Claibourne Darden. Added Beni Ivey, an Atlanta black woman who campaigned for Carter in 1976: "I get a sense that people just don't understand what is going on. And I'm confused...
Most people agree that Carter should have exercised his leadership sooner, but they question his approach. "The Cabinet dismissals are signs of a siege mentality," observed Robert Wildau, an Atlanta attorney. Such views are by no means universal, however. "I sense people still have faith in Carter's leadership," said Joyce Peters, Democratic chairwoman of Bexar County in Texas. "I believe he is stronger in the country than is being perceived." Agreed Texas State Democratic Chairman Billy Goldberg: "Carter is still seen as the guy who sticks with a tough problem...
Leadership involves combinations of the inspirational and the managerial. If it is hard to inspire people now, it is even harder to manage their problems. "There is a difference between winning an election and governing," says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. The first black elected mayor of a major Southern city, Jackson brought a talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal...
Samson has been tested in five Atlanta elementary schools and given to ghetto kids who had fallen far behind in learning tests. "But," says Austin, "when we fed the children this drink every school-day morning for four months, their learning curves came right up." The kids stopped sleeping in class. Their attentiveness increased, and truancy declined. Teachers said that at last they could teach-instead of referee fights...