Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to it now, and it's just another day. The girls coming in - that's the most tempting part, but I'll be out in February." Bobby Medley, 18, convicted of forcible trespassing, performed so well on the job at the Beacon Motel and Restaurant outside Raleigh that he was hired when he was paroled last week. Said Motel Owner G. G. Frazier: "I'm going to use more prisoners in the future. They're harder workers and better than those that come in off the street...
Behind these figures lies a constellation of social changes. One piece of trouble for the clubs is the steady move to the suburbs. Says an officer of Boston's 600-member Union Club: "Years ago, our membership consisted of prominent Bostonians who lived on nearby Beacon and Marlboro Streets. Now they've moved to the outskirts, and our membership is largely professional people who work in the city. And they go home to the suburbs at night. The Union used to be a club in the pure sense of the word. Now it's a businessmen...
...CHARLES S. RHYNE, onetime A.B.A. president (TIME cover, May 5, 1958), defended the court against Satterfield's argument. "In a troubled world," said he, "the Supreme Court decisions protecting individual rights are like a beacon of light to all enslaved people and those suffering from deprivations of individual liberty. In my travels I have found that the thing which people in other lands admire most in the U.S. is that we are constantly strengthening individual rights. And the chief evidence cited is always decisions of the Supreme Court...
...Just as I finish telling my eleventh-grade summer students that the art of satire is dying in our country, along comes your trenchant cover story on today's society [July 20]. Thank you for an evening's entertainment. STANLEY A. WERNER Beacon...
...sounding out the all-powerful white rural vote for support in the governor's race, he backed an outlandish plan for resettlement of Negroes. Last summer, campaigning for mayor of Atlanta in a city with registration 31% Negro, he found the city's school integration "a beacon light to our willingness and readiness to move forward." He won without a majority of the white vote...