Word: innnings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Secret of the motor inn's success is its convenience and the fact that the U.S. citizen hates to be far separated from his car. Once the motorist arrives at the usual hotel, his car is taken from him and deposited in some costly limbo, from which he must bail it out with what seems like an everlasting stream of tips and usually a sizable garage bill...
...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...