Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aides tenderly laid towels over the gaping wound; some 30 hard-hatted Memphis police swiftly converged on the motel in response to the shot. In doing so, they missed the assassin, whose weapon (a scope-sighted 30.06-cal. Remington pump rifle), binoculars and suitcase were found near the rooming house. A spent cartridge casing was left in the grimy lavatory. The range from window to balcony: an easy...
...where the killer waited for more than an hour before he could fire the fatal shot, investigators found a handprint, a thumbprint and an expended casing from his rifle. On the street outside the rooming house, where he occupied Room 5 with a clear view of King's motel across the way, he dropped his rifle and a blue overnight bag containing some clothes. All of these items and imprints gave the FBI and Memphis police a microscopic field day whose yield should provide invaluable courtroom evidence...
...sick." She sobs hard. "Help! The baby's mouth! It's getting dark. I don't know why. I don't know why. My baby sick. My baby sick." Dr. Johnston moved to a scene 16 days later, when a policeman came to her motel room. "It was a cop at the door. He say the baby died. The baby died. The baby died. I don't know what happened. The baby always clean. I always change and feed...
...onto the street than the rocks began to fly. Glass shards sprayed from splintered windows. Rioters galloped from downtown store to store. The parade faltered, halted, turned upon itself to retrace its steps. Police fired tear gas at random, as King beat a prudent retreat to his motel, leaving local civil rights leaders to herd the marchers back to their headquarters church. Looting began, and the police lost their cherished reputation for restraint. Cops thwacked away with clubs, and Negroes turned savagely upon isolated officers...
...trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage the bill was the support by the host of organizations most dependent on out-of-state visitors, including the Vermont Ski Operators and the Green Mountain Motel Association. In fact, the Stowe Area Association, even before the signing of the bill, began voluntarily by removing its 200-odd billboards scattered throughout the state...