Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on David Rockefeller, Correspondent Marshall Berges counts a rocky trip from New York to Maine with his subject aboard a Beechcraft. They put down at Rockland in rough weather. Unable to go on, they tramped up and down U.S. 1 in the rain, only to find every motel flashing a "No Vacancy" sign. "I wasn't really worried," says Berges. "I figured that if things really got desperate, Rockefeller would buy us a motel...
...Many motels now take children under 14 free, but the William Hilton Inn in Hilton Head, S.C., has a nurse and helpers who mind children and even feed them in the dining room while parents are busy elsewhere. Staid Boston is building the Fenway Commonwealth, a six-story, Continental-flavor motel with reproductions of Italian provincial furniture and atmosphere built into the walls. At the Ocean-House Motel in San Diego, waiters are dressed in 17th century costumes as British naval officers, and macaws shrill from cages as guests swim in one of the largest pools in Southern California. Other...
...inevitable shapely models splashed to music in a rooftop pool, the Boston-based Sheraton Corp. last week opened its new, $12 million Sheraton Motor Inn on Manhattan's West Side. Billed as the "world's largest motel," the 20-story Motor Inn sits improbably among tatty warehouses beside the piers where the transatlantic liners dock, and offers its customers, along with free parking, a spectacular view of the Hudson. Judging from the first curious-tourist turnout, business should be good. But far from taking this as encouragement to go on to even bigger things. Sheraton President Ernest Henderson...
...corporations, and I don't take any salary. I put it all back into the corporate structure-and may my mother never draw another breath if this isn't so." Since 1957 he has acquired a $450,000 warehouse, a $900,000 motel, a $375,000 restaurant and office building, a $250,000 retail store, and a tavern worth...
...Voit Gilmore has cut visa-getting time, an old bugaboo for U.S.-bound tourists. (Says one ad: "You'll have your visa in just 20 minutes.") And in another ad a picture of a fountain pen is captioned: "This is all you need to register at any hotel, motel or inn anywhere in the U.S.A." (In most of Europe, passports must be presented at hotel desks.) But one poster showing an impressive aerial view of one of Los Angeles' clover-leafs had an unhappy effect. In Britain, the reaction was: "Get me on one of those things...