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...around 8:15 a.m., I headed out for Savin Hill, a recently remodeled station between Park and Dorchester and another free switch. Coming back intown from there I got a nice surprise: a ride in one of those new-fangled trains. It was better than any regular train I'd ever ridden; it was spacious, clean, and there was a loudspeaker to announce stops, just as there is in New York...
...larded drummers. Little boys in loose t-shirts whom I remembered as urchins had been transformed into juvenile delinquents by Nancy Sinatra and television commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped in white levis, yellow shirt-tails dangling, would make good followers for bad leaders. We were a motley crew, hardly fit to pay homage at the temple...
...downtown hotel is feeling the pinch of a new kind of competition: the motel. For years glued to the roadsides of the nation, the motel is moving into town. San Francisco, where only one conventional hotel has been built in 30 years, has acquired 52 "motor inns," as the intown motels are called nowadays; in Manhattan, which last summer got its first new hotel in 30 years, there are three big new motor inns and two more abuilding; a new motor inn in Washington, six blocks from the White House, is one of five built in the past five years...
...Money has been appropriated for 110,000 units on which work has not even started. In Philadelphia, for example, 10,000 units have been authorized over the last few years, and 5.000 of them are not yet under construction. Cities are having trouble with rising costs and finding suitable "intown" sites.. Says Cincinnati's former Mayor Charles P. Taft: "You cannot move people that fast...
This pint-sized merry-making is reduced even further for freshmen and sophomores, who aren't mature enough to join a club. For them there is nothing but a gymnasium dance and an intown movie. Last week underclassmen queued up for tickets to a "Prince-Tiger" dance: the office opened at 2 p.m.; the only people who got tickets had been in line since before noon...