Word: cots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traffic-jammed motorists. A continuous ribbon of new and half-finished apartment houses, new factories, assembly plants and used-car lots flanks the 13-mile road be tween the airport and town. Hotel space is at such a premium that many a visiting industrialist is glad to find a cot in the bathroom of any rooming house. The new boom town: Algiers, a city once chiefly celebrated in romantic French novels for its hauntingly mysterious Casbah and flyspecked poverty...
...rank of ambassador, Cabinet minister or full general can be housed in the Brasilia Palace Hotel," ruled the chief of the inaugural committee, as 5,000 invited dignitaries fought for its 180 first-class rooms. Conrad Hilton, arriving to lay the cornerstone of his Brasilia Hilton, was offered a cot in the Palace Hotel barbershop. Said Deputy Neira Moreira: "I regret to report that Deputies are even drawing arms to assert their rights to dwellings...
Like refugees from a storm, members of all persuasions had cots brought into their offices and spare rooms; even the old Supreme Court chamber was turned into a Senate dormitory. Lady Bird Johnson showed up with a fresh change of pajamas for the majority leader. Maine's Margaret Smith posed daintily for photographers as she tucked herself into a cot (fully clothed) for the night. Wyoming's Gale McGee hauled in a sleeping bag. Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire got himself photographed in his skivvies. At first it almost seemed fun: a visit to the Senate gallery became...
...trade. Each child must also learn to drive a car-and repair it. Every Friday comes "hygiene day," when all must pass personal inspection of clothes and quarters, and each dormitory also has a logbook for daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students get one day off a week (Sunday), and all must then clear the premises, visit relatives or friends. The reason (to prevent loneliness) illustrates the logic with which shrewd Principal Alexander Andreyevich Petrov runs the place. An able headmaster, Petrov is well paid; he and his teacher wife...