Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holiday Inn I stayed at was in Santa Monica, which is really just an extension of Los Angeles--everything out there is just an extension of L.A. I didn't get to see much of downtown L.A., but I was told that downtown L.A. doesn't really exist. The city is spread out like a vast semi-subrub. Driving through Los Angeles is like driving through an endless stretch of Somerville; it's noisy and hectic and you keep waiting for the suburbs to appear, but they never do. Everything is made out of stucco. Stucco banks, stucco taco joints...
...Santa Monica Holiday Inn sits about a hundred yards from the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. On Saturday night, the Fourth of July, thousands of people poured onto the pier to watch fireworks. The Santa Monica pier is a boardwalk nearly a half-mile long lined with your usual Coney Island-style attractions--greasy food, greasy arcades, greasy drunks. But on the fourth, thousands of people of all ages streamed across a narrow bridge and onto the pier. The whole town was electrified by the screaming voices of Southern Californian maniacs. It was like all the crazy things...
...overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known as "the ice-man" at the agency, was a cold yet charming operative who kept in gregarious touch with his CIA buddies. He often took Mulcahy along to suburban Washington bars, like the Rough Rider Lounge at the Ramada Inn in Tyson Corners, Va., where agents gathered. Mulcahy was convinced that his partner was still working "under deep cover...
Carried by Westar II, INN'S feed provides the kind of national and international coverage few local stations could produce themselves, and at a bargain price: it is free. In exchange for the right to sell three minutes of national advertising, INN provides the show on a barter basis to affiliates, which can sell three minutes of local ads. Says Corporon: "Everybody makes money. And a national news show adds to a local station's prestige, so a little station tends to grow...
Some Big Three network executives charged with keeping their affiliates in line have been disappointed to see a handful carrying INN'S news along with the uptown variety. That trend is likely to continue as the profitable little network branches out: next October INN will add a half-hour midday news show. Within a few years, says Corporon, "we could have five or six programs on the air." For the moment, however, INN'S greatest contribution is to knee-high stations like KGSW in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Says General Manager Erick Steffens: "Before, if a Mount St. Helens...