Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial last week, Judge Simpson let the motel and restaurant owners convict Manucy & Co. The owners told of being picketed by whites carrying such intimidating signs as "Niggers Eat Here. Would You?" Many reported anonymous phone calls: "You're not gonna make it home if you keep serving them." Eddy Mussallem of the Caravan Motel said he called everybody from the sheriff to the state police, only to be told that the pickets were doing nothing illegal. With unwitting irony, Tom Xynidis of the Sea Fair Restaurant told Judge Simpson that he was afraid of obeying...
Subs & Walking Wounded. It was hard to pick a hero or a heroine-or even narrow it down to a dozen. Tennessee State University's Edith McGuire, determined to make newsmen eat "all those terrible articles about us last year," led the way to a U.S. sweep in both the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Cleveland's Eleanor Montgomery launched herself 5 ft. 71 in. up and over the high-jump bar, thus ending the meet's longest string of personal wins (five straight) by Russia's Taisia Chenchik...
Secret of this bargain-basement luxury is, first, that all food is served buffet style and its cost is not included in the fare; a passenger may eat and drink as lightly as his budget or digestion permits. Secondly, he pays for his berth in the single-class cabins (with toilet and shower) on a sliding scale of privacy ranging from $10 (one way) in a cabin for four to $40 for a cabin all to oneself...
...Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...home spend on second homes, pleasure boats and swimming pools; in California 3% of all boat owners earn less than $5,000. In addition, 25% of all families now own two cars-and the latest trend is to a third. 'There is only so much steak one can eat without getting indigestion," says Boston Banker Richard Chapman. "So it seems only logical that the three-car family and the second television is merely the next step...