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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: As Private as Public Can Be | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Koufax finally seems to have out-pitched his own luck. The Dodgers are paying him $30,000. He owns a bulging stock portfolio, part of an FM radio station and a motel. His $30,000 San Fernando Valley home is equipped with a well-stocked library (Aldous Huxley, Thomas Wolfe), stereo cabinet (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky) and bar. Bachelor Koufax tools around Hollywood in a shiny gold Oldsmobile convertible with an assortment of beauties at his side, picks up extra change by appearing on-stage in nightclubs, and playing bit roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Best of the Better | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...Shamrock Hilton, but is only 30. Many are betting on fast-rising Bob Caverly, but there is also talk that Hilton might go outside the company to tap someone like able Howard Johnson the younger, who runs his father's coast-to-coast-franchise restaurant and motel business. Merger talks between the two companies, however, were broken off-at least for the time being-a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: By Golly! | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 5, 1963 | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Race & Realism | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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