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...star in international sailing since he won his first world championship event in 1971. Ironically, Conner was picked to replace Turner as the skipper of Mariner by the boat's syndicate of investors near the end of the 1974 trials, a move that must still rankle the proud Atlantan. Growls Turner: "He did everything he could to get my job. He just went behind my back and stabbed me while I wasn't looking...
...that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits and cream gravy, sausage, bacon, hash, broiled ham and, as a post-Atlantan flourish, exemplary French toast. All food is cooked on big old stoves fired by Presto Logs...
...diversity, a mood of good fellowship seemed to prevail. Said one celebrated Atlantan, Baseball Slugger Hank Aaron, on Inauguration Eve: "Tomorrow at noon, the war between the North and the South is truly over." Remarked British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Ramsbotham on viewing his first Inauguration: "There is a great feeling of reconciliation. Such extraordinary good humor...
...work -except to me," she says. "My husband is very supportive. He is just a prince of a man." More and more, Southern women work as telephone linemen, ministers, welders, lawyers and executives. Barriers are falling for black as well as white women. Says Anna Grant, a black Atlantan, "I thought that if only I could marry a man who wore clean overalls, then I'd have it made." She has become a sociologist at Morehouse College...
That may be why, as one Atlantan observes, Britons Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard were able to affect such convincing Southern accents for their roles in Gone With the Wind...