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...unpleasant road trip from California to his family's farm in New York was enough to convince William Becker that there was a market for cheap, clean road lodging. In 1962 he and his contractor-partner Paul Greene introduced Motel 6, named for the $6 nightly rate they determined would cover such amenities as coin-operated TVs and foam cups. The chain, which made the pair multimillionaires, now has 880 sites across the U.S. and Canada. Becker...
Thomas B. Becker, the student who donned the black hood, said that his costume was designed to draw attention to the protest and referred to controversial U.S. detention practices at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...visual makes it much more impacting,” Becker said. “We can stand out there and chant, but [the security guards] can’t make us take off an orange jumpsuit and hood.” Gonzales’ security detail kept the protesters about 30 feet from the attorney general throughout their demonstration...
...Julie Becker, SPRINGFIELD...
...tenure at certain places. They would...go to dinner parties and schmooze...suck up to the right people. And I never really did that.”During graduate school at the University of Chicago, Goldin worked with renowned economists such as Nobel laureate Gary Becker, who, she says, “turned light bulbs on in my head that I didn’t know existed.”“Claudia was a very good student, considered one of our top students,” says Becker, for whom Goldin worked as a research assistant...