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January 30 - February 4, 2020
That intensity, coupled with bad genes, triggered Billy Payne’s first heart attack. He had a triple bypass at age thirty-four,
the Atlanta Nine, an ad hoc group of highly successful businesspeople and socialites, or as Young later quipped, “Ex-jocks in midlife crisis and exiles from the Junior League.”
The subway was so limited its map was shaped like a stick figure.
The Kenyan IOC representative was a Coca-Cola bottler.
They provided a purebred Georgia bulldog puppy to a Mexican IOC voter,
Just below, in a smaller font, the paper ran a less heralded and unintentionally foreboding subhead: CITY EXPLODES IN THRILL OF VICTORY.
Like most new hires, Jewell began on the lowest rung of jailer, with starting pay a paltry $11,873 a year.
Meanwhile, new open-air swimming and diving pools would be built at Georgia Tech, at the top end of downtown, and would later be enclosed to become the school’s natatorium.
In Seoul ’88, after a threat of an attack on the marathon, South Korean officials stationed the military every ten yards for the entire race route. But the United States had to work under posse comitatus, an 1878 Act of Congress that barred the use of federal troops to enforce domestic laws and make arrests.
The deal included Atlanta’s oldest radio station (whose call letters WSB slyly stood for Welcome South, Brother),
Scruggs became a regular at Manuel’s Tavern, a sprawling bar popular with journalists, the political class, and, most importantly, the police.
Her attire did little to dispel a growing “sleeps with her sources” reputation.
sporting a lime-green miniskirt and go-go boots. AJC credentials dangled over a frilly white blouse, makeup heavy, sunglasses perched atop blonde hair.
On the damp windy morning of April 16, 1996, a brazen group of Islamic terrorists attacked the crew of a Delta Air Lines jet as it landed at Atlanta’s Hartsfield airport. The heavily-armed Algerian hijackers held 225 passengers aboard the Lockheed L-1011, among them seven French athletes, an Indian ambassador, and a U.S. State Department escort. The rebels identified themselves as Martyrs of Allah.
