Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Washington University's most noted faculty member is Earl Warren, 79, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who will hold six seminars a term. Teacher Warren will accept no salary, but expects a large payoff in fun. "I like to visit with young people," he said enthusiastically after his first session last week. "But I don't intend to start an academic career at my advanced age, particularly when professors 15 years younger are being asked to retire...
...executives of Holiday Inns, the nation's most ubiquitous innkeeper. At the first cheap place they can find, contend the officers of Motel 6, a chain whose $6-a-person basic rate has inspired competitors across the nation to pare their prices. "At my place," answers Earl Gagosian, president of a California-based chain of just about the most expensive motels in the country...
Lately, more and more people have been staying at Earl's. In the first half of 1970, a relatively bad year for the motel industry, profits of Gagosian's 40 Royal Inns in eleven states have tripled, to $389,000. Room occupancy is down 7% nationwide, Royal Inns' is up 6.7% . This month Royal Inns will open four new motels, one a 15-story inn that will be the largest building in Anchorage, Alaska. Nine others are being built in California, Arizona, Georgia and Florida...
...local elective offices, including the county commission, school board, the probate judgeship and the sheriff's office-the key political job in much of the rural South. Having narrowly defeated the white incumbent, Big Bill Lee, whose family had held the job for 47 years, Thomas Earl Gilmore, 31, a minister, will be the new sheriff...
...analysis. To a Marxist the New York Times provides all the information he needs about power relationships in America. An ad for Carey Chauffeur-driven cars reads: "There is a new aristocracy in America. Its peers are plainly titled.... If you are a vice-president, you are an earl.... Your castle is the corporation.... You are the most powerful aristocracy in history. You decide what two hundred million people will eat, ride in, wear, laugh at, live for." But the presentation of this information is not enough: for the progressive artist in the capitalist society there must be within...