Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dreamy Pines. Vivienne Michel is her name. Motel receptionist is her game-at least when Bond meets her. The first half of the book is a detailed flashback to explain how Miss Michel happened to find herself one dark and stormy night in a deserted motel between Lake George and Glens Falls, N.Y. "I was running away. I was running away from England, from my childhood, from the winter, from a sequence of untidy, unattractive love affairs . . ." Vivienne goes on at some length about the love affairs. The most recent was Kurt, a West German newspaperman, who made love with...
Rather Cold Passion. She is all right, of course, with Bond beside her in a blaze of bullets and burning motel...
...that. These astronauts, you may remember, have been raking it in from Life magazine (you know, "My Own Story: How It Feels to Shake a President's Hand But Seriously Though It's Really An Awful Great Thrill"). This money, it now appears, will construct Cape Canaveral's newest motel. Sole owners and coupon clippers: John Glenn, five more, and palpitating old Donald Slayton...
...sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some 2,000 people evacuated towns between Atlantic City and Cape May. A 35-room wing of the million-dollar Atlantic Sands Motel was shattered in Rehoboth Beach, Del., just part of that resort city's $50 million damage. Helicopters laboriously carried 800 residents off Virginia's Chincoteague Island; some 2,000 others left when buses got through. The tides swamped resort facilities at Kitty Hawk, N.C., dumped sand into luxury...
...stereophile who wants to take it with him but is leary about disturbing motel neighbors or officemates with blasts of three-dimensional sound, the Koss Personal Listener provides a four-speed turntable, a stereo amplifier with individual channel volume controls, plus a pair of wide-range stereo earphones. The whole business packs neatly into a leatherette carrying case; there are provisions for two sets of earphones for "his" and "hers" listening. Price...