Word: cots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scratch." Meanwhile, give or take a few stars, the tired and hungry traveler driving into Ukiah, Calif., with his family after eight hours on the road, can derive immense comfort from the knowledge that the two-starred Ukiah Travelodge offers a suite for $15 a night, with "crib, $1 ; cot, $2; TV free. Pool. Pets. Café adjacent. Self-serv. laundry four blks. Ck-out. 1 p.m. Patio." And just down Route 101, the one-starred House of Garner specializes in smorgasbord, with a special child's plate...
...tiny screws into packages, punches out orders at a respectable hunt-and-peck speed on the typewriter, drives his own car to work. Murray Nemser, his backbone fused rigid by war injuries, does a full day's work estimating contract bids while stretched out on a mobile cot beside his desk. A one-armed man, using a special jig, performs a delicate soldering job. Women with arthritic-weakened wrists wind wires with the aid of an Abilities-designed machine that speeds up the job so effectively that other companies are buying it for regular workers. Other employees work...
Weddings' hero is a small-tirne commercial photographer (John Myhers) who lives in his store-front studio in the Village and shares his cot with his "model" (Viveca Lindfors). She keeps nagging him to marry her, he keeps dodging. Underneath the usual evasions lies, of course the usual fear of life, but he'll be damned if he's going to open that can of worms. ) they bicker, make up, get engaged take his mother (Chiarina Barile) to an old folks home, trail her all over town when she runs away, bicker, break up. The crisis comes...
...York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy ordered a cot set up in his office in anticipation of a heavy week, canceled all holidays for his cops, placed his 24,000-man force on a 60-hour work week, alerted inspectors for 24-hour-a-day duty, assigned 8,000 men just to guard the visitors. Picketing would be permitted, he said, though not with placards held with sticks that might be wielded as weapons. All "movable objects" that might be used for ammunition (e.g., trash receptacles) were removed from streets on which the visitors might ride...
When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen...