Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most spectacular Japanese style buildings in the U.S. is New York's Motel on the Mountain, conceived by the gifted Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura and largely executed by the energetic young architects Steinhardt & Thompson. Delicately poised on top of a mountain (which Yoshimura found similar to the settings of Japanese country inns), the motel is a complex of 14 buildings joined by covered walks. It has overhanging, many-levelled roofs, exposed beams, balconies and graceful stilts. Nearby are swimming pool, pond and a lake landscaped in Japanese style. Inside, the private rooms are furnished with an eye to simplicity...
...supposedly intelligent (although the difference is hard to tell), who get involved with two moth-eaten California Cleopatras. One of them is Billie, who talks exclusively in Southern-fried cliches; the other is Eva, statuesque, free, pagan, and therefore known as "The Greek." The story rambles from a Malibu motel to Acapulco; the characters whinny in bed, cry "Man, it's great!" and engage in minor unimaginative forms of sadism. It is just possible that Author Morris is kidding, but neither the lechers nor the beauty-shop matrons to whom the book is addressed may notice...
...rocket fever here," said the manager of the Starlite Motel in Cocoa Beach, Fla. one day last week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
Smiles in the Motels. The big night shoots are usually the occasion for the Cape's wives to get together while their husbands work. If there is sufficient warning, they gather at patio parties to watch the gushing clouds of steam tinged with pink, the towers ablaze with brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor...
...General Body Co. and White Motor Co. The high-bodied tractor unit perches the driver 8 ft. above the level of the road, which gives him better daytime visibility and avoids the nighttime problem of oncoming headlight glare. Back half of the unit is the equivalent of a rolling motel; instead of a cramped bunk behind the driver's head, the tractor has a small room with two bunks and a lavatory for the crew. Cost of the tractor...