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...incidents, Berkeley, Calif, demonstrators filled supermarket carts with food, then abandoned them in the store, left perishables to spoil. Militants in New York City threatened to waste water by leaving their faucets open. Negroes entered a segregated Atlanta restaurant, urinated on the floor, drew from former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield a stinging speech on the question: "Is Urination Nonviolent...
...also a town that honors its traditions without becoming mired in them. "The besetting sin of the South is worship of the South," says William Hartsfield, mayor of Atlanta from 1937 through 1961. "Strangely, many people in the South today worship the day that Margaret Mitchell said was gone with the wind. I say 'strangely' because few of them participated in those days. So many speak of magnolias and beautiful ladies and soft nights, and so many of them had only hookworm and poverty. We in Atlanta have been moving and getting somewhere over the years...
...that failed to save the system. The county unit system, ruled the three-judge federal court in Atlanta, was "invidiously discriminatory," violating the "equal protection" clause. Conspicuous in the court room when the court delivered its ruling was Atlanta's ex-Mayor William B. Hartsfield, who had fought the county unit system all during his 24 years as mayor...
...waited a long time," Hartsfield said happily. Said Atlanta's present mayor, Ivan Allen Jr.: "It would be difficult to catalogue all the evils that have resulted from the system over the years. But from now on there are going to be big changes...
...Atlanta will also have a moderate mayor to succeed Moderate William Berry Hartsfield, 71, who is retiring after 24 years in office. The city's voters have rejected a segregationist candidate, chosen instead, by a landslide of 64,313 to 36,091, Ivan Allen Jr., 50, proprietor of the South's biggest office-supply firm...