Word: club
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Married. Bobbie Gentry, 27, the lissome singer who two years ago had millions wondering what Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge; and William Harrah, 58, owner of Nevada's biggest gambling casino, Harrah's Club at Reno and Lake Tahoe; he for the third time; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Reno...
Around the Portage Country Club in Akron, Ohio, conversation these days is anxious, subdued, and addressed to one topic: dismissals of executives and white-collar workers at B. F. Goodrich Co. Since September, the fourth largest U.S. tiremaker has quietly retired or fired several hundred employees, including one vice president and many middle-aged people who have spent the bulk of their working lives with the company. The dismissals have often been abrupt, impersonal and accompanied by a minimum in severance...
...answer seemed obvious to Paul E. Sullivan, a white systems analyst at the Pentagon. As a homeowner in a suburban development in Virginia's Fairfax County, Sullivan belonged to the residents' swimming club, which is called Little Hunting Park Inc. And in 1965, when he rented his house to Theodore R. Freeman Jr., a Negro economist at the Agriculture Department, Sullivan assumed that Freeman's lease entitled him to join the club. Instead, the club barred the Negro tenant. When Sullivan protested, the club barred him too. Sullivan was angry enough to join Freeman in fighting...
Last week, by a vote of 5 to 3, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling and upheld the right of both plaintiffs to sue the Little Hunting Park club in a state court. Speaking for the majority, Justice William O. Douglas held that the "private club" was legally no such thing because "no selective element other than race" was the qualification for membership. "What we have here," wrote Douglas, "is a device functionally comparable to a racially restrictive covenant...
Ironically, Freeman himself will not use the pool in Little Hunting Park; though he can seek damages, he is now a U.S. agricultural aide in Tokyo. Sullivan has leased the house to another Negro. Air Force Sergeant James L. Malloy, but he hesitates to join the club. "There is a very unhealthy atmosphere here," says Malloy, "and I know my children won't be welcome at the pool...