Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come for a week and never need leave. To this end, he has spent $16 million on fun rides like the swirling Black Dragon, a 340-ft.high Astroneedle, a frontier village and outdoor air conditioning. Moreover, he is not permitting any haphazard development on his Astro domain. The four-motel complex that will open this fall is owned by him (although leased to such moteliers as Howard Johnson and Holiday Inns), and so is the transportation system of small, gaudy "tramp trains" that will run between motels and amusement park. Later, Hofheinz plans to build more motels, two theaters, a museum...
...amusement park in Anaheim has become California's No. 1 tourist attraction: 7,900,000 visitors came last year. The constant influx has helped transform Anaheim from a small, dusty town set amid orange groves into a pleasant and bustling city. To cope with the tourists, 3,500 motel and hotel rooms have been built (Disney's own hotel has grown from 150 to 616 rooms) and restaurants have sprouted thick as asparagus outside the superpark's gates...
...enormous cigarettes, huge breast. Yet, explicit though the images are, Wesselmann's nudes are not pornographic. They are too remote for that, too glazed, too impersonal. They could be legendary divorcees, airline stewardesses or Candys who spend all lay on the beach and all night in a motel room. It is hard to imagine them arguing over the household bills, or dropping the children off at the dentist...
...became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and took charge of the Poor People's Campaign when the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, moved into the tent city after some of its citizens lambasted him for living at the nearby Pitts' motel. He was then appointed mayor of Resurrection City by acclamation...
...business. The evening before, to kill some time, he decided to see Gone With The Wind. When he left the theater in the city's tough Tenderloin district, he was jumped by two young muggers who beat him unconscious. Coming to, he hailed a cab to his motel. Next day, when the headache did not go away, he went to see Fournier...