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Godfrey Lowell Cabot '82, Harvard's oldest living alumnus, died yesterday at his Beacon Hill home. He was 101. Cabot was founder and ex-chairman of the Godfrey L. Cabot Ink Co., and served as honorary president of the New England Citizens' Crime Commission...
...cloud-capped towers and echoing canyons of Manhattan have long been a beacon for immigrants, a bonanza for photographers and a familiar profile to its citizens. But in the past five years, new towers have reared skyward, old landmarks have disappeared, and vistas have opened with such suddenness that a returning native would scarcely know the place. Manhattan is in the midst of a building boom that in volume, value and variety is unmatched in the history of the human race. Even oldtime Manhattanites have been startled into a sharp awareness of their city's dramatic angularity and inexhaustible...
...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...