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...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Discrimination is forbidden in nearly every hotel, motel, restaurant and theater. Only boardinghouses with five rooms or less and private clubs are specifically excluded. The Attorney General can initiate court action for enforcement, except in 32 states that have public accommodations statutes, where he must first refer complaints to state officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crushed by the Coalition | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Last week the main target was a restaurant and nightclub owned by Charles Lebedin. Demonstrators rushed into his place, urinated on the floors when he locked the rest rooms. Other Negroes surged screaming through a motel. During the week 300 people were jailed, a dozen were injured. Mayor Allen hoped to head off worse violence. Said he: "Atlanta will accept no ultimatums and bows to no threats. At the same time, it will not lag in its efforts to ensure all of its citizens their full rights of citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Ruining a Reputation | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Following standard procedure in recent Harvard to some crummy motel or ruin our sacroiliacs in the sex disclosures, the stories establish their validity with quotes from Dean Monro's much-cited letter to the CRIMSON. You know the words by heart...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: What's 'Older Than Harvard and Lots More Fun'? | 1/20/1964 | See Source »

...gaudiness nothing quite compares with Dallas' Cabana motel, owned by the improbable combination of Doris Day and the Teamsters Union. Five fountains jet water 50 ft. into the air under red, yellow and blue lights. A life-sized lobby mural of naked Romans embroiled in orgy entices-or repels-the traveler. A Texan can stand tall on the lobby balcony, see 37 images of himself in gold-tinted mirrors. In his room he finds huge mirrors above his bed or covering an entire wall. Yet Dallas also has a good symphony orchestra that is pressing Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Close to the Land | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...them, Billy; I am absolutely convinced He was one of them." During a service at the new Church of Christ, Astronaut, which Brown attends along the way, the preacher exhorts his flock to behave better or else: "When we get there, to the Kingdom Come Motel, there will be banners reading NO EARTHMEN NEED APPLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will THEY Never Come? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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