Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus it was with considerable incredulity last week that New York's taxi masochists learned that one of the biggest fleets in town, called Helen Maintenance, had hired Designer Carleton Varney to refurbish its taxis in Holiday Inn splendor. The company's 104 Checker cabs will have green-and-white checked vinyl-covered seats, red tweed weather-resistant carpeting, solid green jump seats and matching interior walls. Seat belts will be bright red and ceilings will be painted blue-with an occasional white cloud and colorful bird -symbolizing, no doubt, New York's sky-high fares. Says...
...elderly switchboard operator in the motel saying, "Oh, I love my work. Oh, I'm happy, I'm very happy with my work. These young girls, they're not as conscientious as I am. Once, though, at two in the morning"--let's say she worked for Holiday Inn--"I'd answer it, 'Marriott Inn.'" And I would say, "Why did you do that?" She'd say, "I don't know what made me do it. Just for a lark, I guess. Want to make the night more exciting. You know what I'd like to do some day? They...
...Murphy was released in a suburban Atlanta Ramada Inn and ordered to keep wearing his blindfold until he could no longer hear the sounds of the kidnapers' cars. Then he phoned home. Arriving at his front door minutes later in the glare of TV lights, Murphy said shakily: "It's very important that at this moment they [the kidnapers] understand that they have not won a real victory. They have frightened me very badly and they have frightened my family. But they should know that they won't get the country turned around this way." Asked...
SCIENCE CENTER B, The Dragon Inn...
Seven days before the indictment was handed down, Hughes and a party of ten roared out of London, where he had lived at the Inn on the Park for nearly a year, and flew by private jet to Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. Arriving at 4 a.m., the entourage moved into four top-floor suites of the Xanadu Princess Hotel. Among its attractions is that it is in a country that recently refused to extradite Financier Robert Vesco to the U.S. to stand trial on an indictment for using telegraph services to carry out a fraud-one of the violations...