Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retired Episcopal bishop husband at home in Cambridge, donned sensible shoes, and gone south with three friends because, she said, "we decided that the Negroes needed help." On her first full day in town, Mrs. Peabody satin with Negroes at three segregated restaurants, a movie house and two motels. Next day, while sitting in at a segregated motel dining room with five Negroes, she was arrested for trespassing, being an undesirable guest, and conspiracy. Rather than post a $450 cash bond, Mrs. Peabody chose to spend two nights and two days in a St. Augustine jail cell with six other...
Gertrude Novak, a Senate clerk who, with her late husband, was a partner in Baker-inspired motel and stock ventures, testified that she frequently went to Baker's office to pick up sums ranging from $1,000 to $13,300, always in cash. She said that the money was for operating expenses at the Carousel Motel in Ocean City, Md. Baker and the Novak family built the $1,200,000 motel in 1962, later sold it to Serv-U Corp., a vending-machine firm in which Baker is a major stockholder...
There were other enterprises, among them a travel agency in Washington and a Howard Johnson's motel in North Carolina, in both of which Baker had a piece of the action. But they were small potatoes compared with Serv-U, the Baker-Black-controlled vending-machine firm. Less than 24 months after it qualified to do business in California in January 1962, Serv U had been awarded chunks of the vending business at three major aerospace firms-North American Aviation, Northrop Corp., and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories...
Some 75 new items are included in the revised 400-item index, as a result of a survey of 12,000 families in 66 cities. Among the new items: funeral costs, home-and auto-finance charges, hotel-motel rates, snack prices, parking fees, college tuitions, and the prices of textbooks, magazines and paperback books. Among the prices that have been dropped are those for such items as rolled oats, men's work gloves and lemons, which have become less significant in the family budget of the 1960s...
Monk, the baroness, and Monk's present saxophonist, Charlie Rouse, 39, were driving through Delaware for a week's work in Baltimore. Monk stopped at a motel for a drink of water, and when he lingered in his imposing manner, the manager called the police...