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...pictures are usually screwed tightly to the wall. At many motels, a light goes on at the front desk if a television set is unplugged. All bills are presented when they reach $50; though most people do not have to settle until they leave, this policy gives the desk clerk a chance to demand immediate payment if the guest looks like a deadbeat...
Permissive social values have reduced promiscuity as a problem for motel men. Often an unmarried couple will register for the same room under their own names and dare the clerk to say anything. Holiday Inns' policy is to turn down couples only when they are from the local community and known not to be married. Many motels and hotels make no effort at all to check. Loew's Corp. President Preston Tisch remembers ruefully when his teen-age son was working behind the desk of the Americana in Manhattan. Says Tisch: "He wouldn't check...
...every Holiday Inn in the U.S. to two IBM 360 computers in Memphis, which keep tab on every room in the system. In a few seconds, a guest at one inn can get confirmed reservations at other inns anywhere in the U.S. If one motel is full, a desk clerk can punch a few buttons on a panel and find out what openings are available at other Holiday Inns in the area...
...Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church made a historic proposal: that four mainstream Protestant churches should seek to merge into a single organic entity. Out of Blake's proposal came a broader, continuing series of interdenominational meetings called the Consultation on Church Union, which was fervently supported by Protestant ecumenical leaders for more than a decade. Now COCU is in serious trouble -and at the hands of none other than Blake's United Presbyterian Church. At the church's General Assembly in Denver, delegates voted...
...book has several elements that recur in The Stranger: the sun-drenched Algerian setting, a restless clerk named Mersault whose mother dies, a restaurant keeper named Celeste. This Mersault, more open and spontaneous than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive...