Michael Hightower pushes by the ag...

Michael Hightower pushes by the agency of automatic doors. They just don't exhibit fast enough for him. Hightower, a Fulton shire Ga., commissioner and president of the National Association of Counties, doesn't believe in waiting for things to happen.

I exhausted a week with Hightower undivided day recently. We started at the monthly Fulton shire department heads meeting, drove 20 miles to a community facility for the somewhat advanced in life drove back into town for a meeting with Jerry Griffin, executive director of Georgia's shire commissioners association; ate lunch (Hightower picks at his feed and spends most of the time doodling political matter on the paper place mat), collection 20 miles back to the southward end of the county to admire a brand fresh recreational facility, then headed farther southern still for the annual firefighters' memorial service, then forward to pick up Hightower's daughter from exercise then on to City Hall for a