Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, Manhattan's Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, Inc. is presently working on a new flooring for Monsanto, business machines for Pitney-Bowes, packages for Nabisco. Snaith recently designed the interior of a new Wanamaker's at King of Prussia, Pa., is planning a marina-office-motel complex in Connecticut and a vacation-house development in Vermont. Last week Fairchild-Hiller commissioned the firm to design the interiors for its twin...
Slippery Splash. She was off-Broadway next in John Steinbeck's Burning Bright. Then followed two bigger opportunities, Motel with Siobhan McKenna, which folded in Boston, and Face of a Hero, starring Jack Lemmon. Says Jack gallantly: "If Sandy had been playing my role, we'd probably still be running." The show closed after 36 performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave. In an ingenue supporting role, she made her splash opening night when the elastic of her half-slip gave way. As the silk was heading...
...supermarket, which he and his wife operated. There were also a few stores, houses and a gas station, which he rented out. Jackson figured the whole package was worth at least $250,000, and there was some still-vacant land on which he had just decided to build a motel. Things were looking good. In his wildest nightmares, Jackson could not have guessed what luck, lawyers and the law were about...
...Negroes had been staying at Algiers Manor, a tacky three-story annex behind a Woodward Avenue motel. Police records show that the place had been a haven for prostitution, narcotics and stolen ammunition; one night at the height of the riots, police hauled out a man with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police...
...Like a motel manager, a trusty dispenses keys and assigns check-out times for each building's half a dozen 8-ft. by 10-ft. rooms furnished with beds, tables and mirrors. About one-quarter of Parchman's 1,700 inmates have access to these rooms; the three-quarters who do not include disciplinary cases, condemned prisoners, unmarried men and all women (in order to avoid prison pregnancies...