Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deter the frantic last-minute preparations for independence day. Giant yellow earthmovers groaned through the mud of the Transkei's capital, completing $12 million worth of new paved highways and carving out access roads to the newly completed $14 million airport and a $2.4 million Holiday Inn. The immediate purpose of all the construction is to prepare for distinguished visitors. The only head of state who has so far accepted an invitation to next week's ceremonies, however, is South Africa's President Nicolaas Diederichs, who has to be present anyway to hand over the official instruments...
Flying in from Buffalo, N.Y., around noon, the former Georgia governor will attend a private reception at the East Boston Ramada Inn sponsored by the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee...
After his 1:30 p.m. speech at B.C.'s Roberts Center, Carter will return to the Ramada Inn to address members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. At 4 p.m. he is scheduled to leave for Portland...
...deepest realization of what the Old South was really like came in about 1962, when my father, brother, a friend and I drove South to my grandmother's house in Stuart, Fla. On the way we were denied a room in a Holiday Inn in Savannah, and wound up sleeping in a "rooming house" (read whorehouse) that hadn't had an overnight guest in years. In Stuart, my father went into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What...
Back home in sun-scorched Russell, Kans. (pop. 5,400), where the Senator maintains a small, red brick house, the news of Dole's selection caused a sensation. People gathered around the TV set in the Elks club and in the Ramada Inn to share in the excitement. To mark the occasion, Harold Elliott, Dole's high school basketball coach, took the clock off the living room wall and hung in its place an autographed picture of the Senator. Mrs. Carl Friesen, Dole's aunt, got out the family pictures and a folder of clippings...