Word: coffining
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...have told my wife to buy me a coffin.' But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me." See THE WORLD, Toward a Sterner Life...
...signs, and Howard Johnson motor lodges feature the familiar orange roof. One chain has made a virtue of being different, though, and hardly has two establishments that are alike. It is Treadway Inns Corp., whose 28 hostels include such disparate stopovers as Nantucket's 120-year-old Jared Coffin House, once a whaler's mansion, a modern downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known as the Mittersill Inn. Most of Treadway's inns are in New England, but some are scattered as far away as Virginia...
When a comrade met a coffin...
...that state and local governments have been unable-or unwilling-to furnish. The medicare bill (see box, next page) will relieve older citizens of the worry of spending their savings on medical bills, thereby add to their general purchasing proclivities, inspire consumer-spending and drive another nail into the coffin of cyclical depression...
...this time several high officials, such as Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, had departed silently, and reporters had slipped into growing numbers of vacant chairs around the coffin-shaped table. Near the end of the session, Busby called upon Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who turned out to be the showstopper...