Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the company's headquarters in Memphis to the Holiday Inn University being completed in Olive Branch, Miss., Tompkins observed Wilson at varied work and play for three days...
Seattle Attorney Edward Rauscher was vacationing at Vancouver's Bayshore Inn where the elevator doesn't stop at the 19th and 20th floors because Howard Hughes lives there. One day, though, somebody in the elevator with Rauscher playfully pushed 20. By some electronic glitch the number lit up on the indicator. "When I saw that 20 light up," says Rauscher, "I knew I had from one to 20 seconds to think about what I was going to do." He decided to ask Hughes for a donation to his favorite charity, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable...
...Skinner, manager of Vero Beach's Driftwood Inn, has a happy complaint: "Our business is up 20% from last year, and our rear ends are really dragging." Miami Beach's Hotel Fontainebleau posted a record 90% occupancy rate from November through April. This month it has booked an unprecedented five conventions-each taking up 1,000 rooms-and recently it turned down a booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people...
...Mississippi woman's soliloquized lamentation. She tells and mimes the bone-wearying troubles of her existence, a Beckettesque journey from nothingness to oblivion. Gloria Foster makes a triumph of this taxing role through her unremittingly somber presence and power. The next two playlets, Players inn and Cop and Blow, are set in a bar, the gaudy aquarium of tropically colorful sharks who prey mercilessly on the vulnerable fish of the ghetto...
...Square area. At the old Baird-Atomic site across from the Harvard Square Post Office, a speculator has developed plans for a 19-story building, and has already received necessary permits to begin excavation. Planning Office officials report that the developer, Kanovas Corporation, is considering construction of a Holiday Inn on the site...