Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, associate editor of TIME. As the Essay's author, he could not resist the rare opportunity of writing himself into a story. The first thing that struck him during several days of research in Las Vegas was the lavishness of the accommodations. Checking into a motel with his wife Patsy, he was offered a room with a pool. "They actually meant a room with a pool in it," reports Kennedy. "I knew then that I was in some other way of life. This was not at all like Cincinnati. I told them that a shower would...
...Michigan's Governor George Romney. His 36th wedding anniversary fell on Sunday and his 60th birthday the following Saturday-but Romney didn't have time to make much fuss over them. Putting up in a grey-shingled cottage on the Lake Winnipesaukee estate of his friend Mormon Motel Magnate J. Willard Marriott, he spent four busy days testing the political waters in New Hampshire, well ahead of the state's primary on March 12, 1968. He found the waters at best lukewarm...
Eager to learn by doing, Matthau finally entices a voluptuous victim (Elaine Devry) to a motel; as she stands before him, stripped down to her black lace foundation, he decides that he prefers a wifetime of dreaming to a lifetime of scheming. Nervously he shows his date pictures of his family and prays for any interruption that will end the affair that never began. Moments later, deliverance comes when detectives break into a neighboring room and discover a couple in bed. The man: that satirical satyr Robert Morse. Gratefully, Matthau and the movie chicken out and head for home...
...begins with a bus ride to Worcester Friday. That late afternoon they will practice on the lake for the first time. The practice is quiet and intense--the lake is silent and without spectators. After practice the crew eats dinner at a Howard Johnson's, then finds a motel to sleep in. There while the crew tries to rest for Saturday the coaches and coxes for all the boats competing in the sprints assemble to iron out the technical details of the meet, preparing for Saturday morning...
...about 3 o'clock the crew leaves the motel. Dressed for the race already, they have nothing to do but wait around the back of the boat-house, watching the other crews leave until it is their turn...