Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx and other determinists as a prisoner of an abstraction called history. "Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example," complained Carlyle. "He was the 'creature of the Time,' they say; the Time called him forth, the Time did everything, he nothing...
...champions of political causes. Among the most conspicuous champions today are the fighters for civil rights, and perhaps posterity will find a degree of heroism in that quiet man, Earl Warren, who wrote the historic decision striking down separate-but-equal education. But heroism requires panache, which makes Martin Luther King a more vivid current hero...
...some steady individual customers like Rocketeer Wernher von Braun and the folk-singing Brothers Four, occasionally takes spot orders from others. Last year one of its planes picked up Martin Luther King in Alabama during the Selma march, flew him to a Cleveland speaking engagement, then back to the march. When Trans World Airlines President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. was unable to get a TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington for a dinner meeting with Lyndon Johnson, an EJA plane picked him up and got him there. EJA got a luminous letter of thanks from Tillinghast...
When Memphis Businessman Luther F. Matthews, 53, put up a glossy, 60-room motel in the heart of town seven years ago, the smart hostelry money had long since been out in the suburbs. Figuring that Matthews, whose business was parking lots, just did not know any better, some of the local hotelmen charitably warned him that he was bound to flop. Some flop! By its second day, Matthews' Downtowner Motor Inn was filled to capacity, and this week in Muskegon, Mich., Matthews opens his 66th motor inn. Plans are for a new one about every nine days...
Texas-born Luther Matthews has prospered on the simple notion that people went to motels outside of town because city hotels were "obsolete and rundown." While other motel chains bent over backwards to be everything from convention halls to resorts, Downtowner Corp. zeroed in on the all-but-forgotten traveling salesman for its bread-and-butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year...