Atlantans boast that their city is the most progressive and peaceful in all of the Deep South. In his four years as mayor, silver-haired Ivan Allen Jr. has given them plenty to boast about. No fewer than six of the seven civic programs for which Allen campaigned in 1961 have been successfully completed.
As a result, Atlanta has: public schools desegregated through all twelve grades; an $18 million stadium home for its first major league baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (who will move from Milwaukee at season's end); a $9,000,000 auditorium-exhibition hall complex; a $14.5 million freeway link between the...
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