Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lakers checked in at Charleston's Kanawha Hotel. The hotel clerk refused to give a room to Baylor and his Negro teammates, Ed Fleming and Alex ("Boo") Ellis. Angrily, the whole squad stalked out, registered at a Negro motel. "They were not even polite at the hotel,'' Baylor fumed. "They told us we couldn't even get in a halfway decent restaurant...
...Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help? ("Just my wife and I.") Did he "have servants, cleaners...
...their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building 200 days. But it was worth it. "This is a real landmark," said one Indian last week. He was talking not about the jewel-like chancery itself, but the motel-like adjoining servants' quarters, the like of which New Delhi has never seen...
...date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...
...understood that the University favored the motel land as the site of a proposed Cambridge-Harvard parking facility...