Word: motel
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...plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend's backyard patio...
From the outset News Reporter Douglas Glazier, a police-beat veteran, sensed the possibility of a railroading. The nomadic bikers had been picked up elsewhere on another offense; they were convicted of the Albuquerque murder after a motel maid fingered them and testified she had been raped, tortured with a hot knife and made to watch the killing. Glazier rounded up gasoline credit-card receipts backing the bikers' claim that they had not been in Albuquerque at the time. Then a former policeman admitted to Glazier that the maid had told him she had lied. News Reporter Stephen Cain...
Shortly before O'Keefe and Medlin flew to join a CBS film crew in Key West, Medlin talked O'Keefe into giving him $8,700 of the money for safekeeping. En route, he persuaded O'Keefe to stay overnight in Tampa. They checked into a motel, and at 4 a.m. Medlin walked out with the cash. For days a diver hired by CBS searched off Key West-in vain. Admitted a philosophical Salant: "We've been had before...
Medlin soon tried the scheme on a New Orleans freelancer and two local newspapers; all turned him down. But a movie critic at one of the papers, the weekly Figaro, tipped off FBI agents, who late last week arrested Medlin in a New Orleans motel. Only $3,100 was found in his room. Medlin was turned over to authorities at a federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability...
Tora! Tora! Tora! was the Friday night movie that most of the swim team watched from their Annapolis motel on the evening before their Pearl Harbor Anniversary Weekend meet with Navy...