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...good news for sophisticated, affluent American travelers is that the increasing success of these oases of Old World-style (their occupancy rates are well above the hotel industry's average of 69%) has spurred a boom in new and refurbished hostelries with deluxe accommodations for just a few hundred guests. "Americans have come of age," says Philip Pistilli, proprietor of the five-year-old, 124-room Raphael in Kansas City and its namesake in Chicago. "They now want style and service. The message of the small hotel is individual care of people...
...attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British tour firm, Intasun, alone has reserved 6,000 beds a night in 21 Florida hotels for this summer. "We love them, we love them," gushes Miami Beach Mayor Murray...
...emotional highs and bawdy lows of Shapiro's lurch through a world of dubious achievements and even more dubious respectability. Joshua, with his raffish background and inherited street smarts, is an arbiter of such matters. Most of his childhood friends make it to Montreal's affluent suburbs and lose their roots in wall-to-wall carpeting. To put on occasional airs is human, but to be a full-time phony is to risk devastating caricature, like Yossel Kugelman who becomes Psychiatrist Jonathan Cole, author of the bestseller My Kind, Your Kind, Mankind...
Gladys had no reason to think of marriage as a binding contract. Her own parents, part of that affluent late Victorian world of American expatriates, parted in sensational circumstances when her father shot her mother's lover dead in the Hotel Splendide in Cannes...
...white-run businesses. The rioters' main targets were white-owned thrift stores, pawnshops, liquor stores, auto parts dealers and chain groceries. Few banks or pharmacies existed in the area. Schools and churches escaped damage, and the homes occupied by blacks looked as untouched as the residences of affluent whites in Coral Gables and Miami Shores...