Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Kane sees no sign of serious new tensions across the South as the school opening approaches. But he detects "an ocean of confusion that can breed sporadic violence" in districts where desegregation plans have not yet been detailed, parents do not know what schools their children will be attending, and there are last-minute plans involving long bus rides or predominantly black classrooms that could "radicalize"' whites. There is also a mood of increased militancy among young blacks, who are less likely than before to accept meekly any unfair treatment in their...
...privately produced Vixen, his largest financial success, was set in a cabin somewhere in the Canadian woods. Vixen was so erotic that you were embarassed to have other people in the theater; as if they were watching you have sex. It was held over for 58 weeks in Atlanta, which has to be a record of some sort...
...Concept. It will take months to untangle the finances of the nonrock festival. The promoters reportedly sold 30,000 tickets at $20 each. The ski-resort owners, Herman and Louis Zemel, broke with the promoters, a group of 15 men headed by Joseph Middleton of Atlanta and incorporated as Middleton Arts International. The Zemels accused the organizers of planning to provoke violence at the festival and then to profit by filming the disorder. The Zemels said they had some $60,000 of the ticket money put away in escrow...
...polluted air hung like a filthy muslin curtain along the entire Atlantic Coast, from Boston south to Atlanta. Because of unusually stagnant winds and humid heat in the high 90s, Washington, D.C., was on the verge of the first smog alert in the capital's history. The hardest hit of all U.S. cities was New York (see following story), which declared a first-stage pollution alert and simultaneously reeled under a severe power shortage...
...keeping pace with demands for social reform. Consider the case of the Coca-Cola Co. It has exemplary programs for hiring the hard-core unemployed and controlling pollution. But just after Earth Day, the company was singled out by pollution protesters, who dumped mounds of nonreturnable bottles at its Atlanta headquarters. Lately Coca-Cola has found itself a target of criticism in a more serious matter that it has too long neglected: its treatment of migrant workers...