Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lavish Los Angeles motel? A used Thunderbird lot? Or Steve Mc Queen's palatial pad? No, it is Beverly Hills High School, a pink stucco hacienda that boasts 1,750 over-achieving students, a producing oil well on the premises, a summer school in France and spotless academic credentials. Gloats one teacher: "It's the nearest thing to a private school that a public school...
...languishes in a Miami jail awaiting possible extradition home on charges of embezzling $13 million); and Lee Brook, 20, a onetime car-park attendant; after an elopement that touched off a nationwide hunt, which ended when Brook called his brother from their hideout, a nearby motel, to announce: "I love her and I've got her"; in Key West...
...this, Motel Operator John Taylor replies: "Hogwash." He began admitting Negroes to his three North Carolina motels two years ago, has experienced neither a surge of Negro guests nor a drop in white business. But for defensive reasons, most Southern businessmen prefer to act jointly when they integrate: 50 Atlanta restaurants desegregated in a body last week, and 21 Charlotte drive-ins will do so this week...
SAVANNAH, GA. Some 1,000 Negro demonstrators rallied in front of a segregated Holiday Inn motel to chant their demands for equality. Then they moved toward the city jail, where dozens of others, arrested during three weeks of previous demonstrations, were already locked up. City police, reinforced by Georgia state troopers, moved in to break up the march. Pelted with bottles and bricks, the cops retaliated with billy clubs and tear gas, arrested about 275 more Negroes...
...Frankly, I don't understand all the fuss about this meet," said New Zealand's Peter Snell, 24, on the eve of the California Relays at Modesto, Calif. Lounging beside a motel pool, arm in arm with his bride of two weeks, the world's fastest miler (3 min. 54.4 sec.) hardly looked like a man facing the sternest test of his career. He dismissed his chief competitor, the U.S.'s Jim Beatty, a 3-min. 56.3-sec. miler, with a scornful shrug: "This Beatty doesn't hold any decent record at all." He snorted...