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Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...
Mass UFOria. Bookstore browsers can testify that the FS imagination has been working overtime. Currently the best-read fiction science (more than 30 million paperback copies sold) is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels. Von Däniken, a former Swiss hotelman and convicted embezzler with no formal scientific training, professes the notion that the species Homo sapiens was created when astronauts from outer space descended to earth about 10,000 years ago and copulated with apes. It was a kind of one-night stand. According to the author, the satiated aliens...
...criticized for selecting the Philadelphia Orchestra over the city's own National Symphony Orchestra, which has performed at past Inaugurations. Local radio and television stations have balked at providing free commercials to promote the sale of Inaugural medals. J. Willard Marriott, chairman of the Inaugural Committee and a hotelman himself, has irritated local hotel operators, who had hoped to reap a big profit from the Inauguration, by not scheduling more events in their establishments...
...even a member of Washington's tight Mormon inner circle, though he attends services regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer. He is a bit too liberal and splashy for Mormon leaders like Senator Wallace F. Bennett and Hotelman J. Willard Marriott. Church etiquette requires that he be called "Brother Anderson," but some of the brethren choke on the words...
...Democratic Convention, dangled $1.1 million before the Site Selection Committee and when spurned, mounted a floor fight against the committee's designation. The citizens of San Diego objected even more strenuously. The convention, which opens Aug. 21, comes at the height of the tourist season, and hotelman are not enthusiastic over the prospect of canceling reservations to make room for the delegates. Taxpayers, who voted down nine bond proposals last June, see the cost of police protection and city services during the convention as an unnecessary revenue drain. Support for the convention was rallied by the San Diego Union...