Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual convoy. Three armored tractor-trailers were bound from the Denver Mint to the Bank of America in San Francisco last week with a $2.6 million cargo. When they stopped for the night in Oakland, Calif., at the Edgewater-West Adult Motor Inn, known for its X-rated movies, three bandits broke into one of the trucks. The driver on guard saw them only in time to fire his revolver at a Lincoln Continental speeding away...
...Ferrante--the weekend was also extra special. All three were named to the national tournament team, Gately as a fullback, Gregg at midfield, and Ferrante in the forward position. To honor their achievement, the three players received T-shirts which said "All Tournament team" on the front and "Holiday Inn' on the back. Hey, it's only the tournament's first year. Maybe next year they'll give out engraved watches or something like that...
Where Van Buren's vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
...pace has been as hectic on the Reagan side, where Correspondent Laurence Barrett says he has seen America as he had not for years: "Mostly it looks like the inside of a plane or a Holiday Inn room." Barrett covered 80,000 miles and 23 states before he stopped counting three months ago. He has seen two of his portable computer terminals, for filing stories back to New York, go up in smoke. But Barrett remains stoic. Says he: "Come Nov. 4,1 have a fifty-fifty chance of knowing the President-elect better than most people know their next...
...down in history as the Metropolitan Opera's elevator contract. Talks with the orchestra started on the second floor of Manhattan's Doral Inn, moved up to the sixth, and then rose still higher to the 17th, where a tentative agreement was finally reached over the weekend. Though the musicians still have to ratify the contract-and 16 other unions must settle as well-one thing seemed virtually certain: the Met will have a 1980-81 season after...