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Exhumed & Examined. The legend of Marie Besnard began in the gossip mills of Loudun. Over the years, Marie and her husband Léon had inherited from relatives six houses, two farms, an inn and a café. Amid all this affluence, Léon invited his mistress, Loudun Postmistress Louise Pintou, to move in with him and his wife. But when it was whispered that Marie herself took a lover-a former German prisoner of war 30 years her junior-Léon apparently protested. Several days later, after becoming violently ill over lunch, Léon died; local...
...downtown hotel is feeling the pinch of a new kind of competition: the motel. For years glued to the roadsides of the nation, the motel is moving into town. San Francisco, where only one conventional hotel has been built in 30 years, has acquired 52 "motor inns," as the intown motels are called nowadays; in Manhattan, which last summer got its first new hotel in 30 years, there are three big new motor inns and two more abuilding; a new motor inn in Washington, six blocks from the White House, is one of five built in the past five years...
...universe is like an inn...
...Chicago's O'Hare Inn, a convention-attracting motel near O'Hare Airport, has started work on a $45,000 shelter under a new addition. The 60-ft. by 100-ft. shelter will protect 500 guests...
Into the neon-lighted Cottage Inn restaurant-motel on teeming U.S. Highway 40 north of Baltimore last week walked Pedro Sanjuan, 31, assistant chief of protocol of the U.S. State Department, on a troubled mission. The day before, the inn had refused to seat and serve a Nigerian diplomat, and Nigeria had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Government. Sanjuan had come to ask the Cottage Inn to reconsider its segregation policy-and he was loudly rebuffed. "The hell with the United Nations and the hell with your colored diplomats!" shouted beefy, red-faced Proprietor Clarence Rosier. "I built...