Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swell Swoop. "People," says Lakebuilder Thomas J. Perine, chairman of Indianapolis' U.S. Land, Inc., "have the same motivation to go to water as birds have to fly south in the winter." Perine, 34, is capitalizing on that motivation all across the country by building lakes, then selling off the land around them for residential resort use. The lakes are no little waterholes. The Four Sea sons project will have 288 acres of water in four lakes, with twelve miles of shoreline. Since hitting on the idea three years ago, Perine has already finished lakes of similar size outside Cleveland...
...firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and self-defeating," lamented Martin Luther King Jr. Atlanta's Negro leaders were more outspoken; they adopted a resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire to a pile of S.N.C.C. literature and demanded that the local S.N.C.C. chapter move out of their neighborhood...
...Last winter a little-known magazine called Transaction charged that the President's State of the Union message was a barely recognizable description of the U.S. The message relied too heavily on economic bookkeeping, too little on social accounting, wrote Bertram M. Gross, professor of political science at Syracuse University. To reflect the quality as well as the quantity of American life. Gross said, the President should deliver an annual "Social Report" that deals in the round with the state of education, arts, crime and disease...
...ROBERT A. WINTER Saint Mark's Church Warren...
...most profitable years, was hit even harder than the airlines, lost an estimated $1.6 billion. Occupancy in leading Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their fragile crop, lost $1,000,000 a week in sales to out-of-state customers...