Word: inns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only Twice. Now, when Nixon is in town, San Clemente hums with the business of the most powerful nation on earth-and of the camp followers. Camera-laden tourists by the hundreds cruise the once-quiet, mimosa-lined boulevards in the hope of spotting the President. The San Clemente Inn provides maps of the quarter-mile route to the gates of the Western White House, but all the tourist gets is the gates; a grove of palms hides Nixon's offices and home...
...hour after Rogers received Israel's affirmative, President Nixon was awakened and told the good news. President and Secretary of State journeyed together to the San Clemente Inn for an impromptu press conference. "We do not underestimate the difficulties," said Nixon. "It will require moderation, flexibility and a willingness by both sides to accept something less than their maximum positions." But, he added, with a pleased Rogers at his side, "there is now some hope...
...midevening the inn was jammed. Outside in the parking lot, the overflow of fifers and drummers set up their own jam sessions. One of those basking in the deafening music was Raymond Hill, fire chief of the City of Los Angeles. In Washington for a firemen's seminar, he had come to Deep River to attend his fifth muster. "Anybody who can hear an ancient corps and not have the hair raise on the back of his neck, why something's wrong with him," he said...
After the last performance, a jam session was decreed and there ensued a gigantic version of Friday night's scene at the inn parking lot. Hundreds of fifers and drummers, now in such states of unattire as T shirts atop colonial knee breeches, gathered in informal groups to pump out their traditional favorites. Despite the mixing of corps personnel, the precision achieved was impressive. But from across the field, the combined effect was a cacophony of sounds, a good-humored musical nightmare that for some lasted late into Saturday night, evoking all the ghosts...
Others followed rapidly. Kent Philpott and a few fellow seminarians at Golden Gate Baptist Seminary opened their own houses, Soul Inn and Berachah House, and those, in turn, produced other spinoffs. Success in the Bay Area prompted attempts elsewhere: Dave Palma, 20, founder of the House of Pergamos there, is now trying to introduce the idea to New York City. There are now, by conservative estimate, more than 200 communes in California, and still others in the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, Detroit and other cities...