Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...
...smaller owners fear that the larger ones, like Restaurant Associates, which runs Zum Zum, the Treadway Inn, and Barney's, may simply board up and pay their rent until their leases expire. Jacobs imagines that "we could have a skid row here in one or two years...
...ending his presidency when the class of 1960 graduated from Salina High School. John Kennedy was two weeks away from the Democratic nomination. Recently, 195 members of Salina High's class of 1960 gathered from all over the nation for a reunion at Salina's Hilton Inn. They came partly out of nostalgia, but also out of curiosity-to see what the '60s had done to their classmates and their home town of 43,000 people. TIME'S William Friedman joined them and sent this report...
...graduates kept the local bowling alley open all night. Next evening they assembled for a ham and beef banquet, looking prosperous for their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...
Every major U.S. hotel chain is expanding fast overseas. In more foreign places than ever before, travelers this year will be cooled by U.S.-style air conditioning, mellowed by martinis and sustained by steaks at hotels with such reassuringly familiar names as Hilton, Sheraton, Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn. "We reckon the opportunities abroad, particularly in Europe and Latin America, are as great for us as they were in America when we started in the '50s," says Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years...