Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sirica was still skeptical when the Government's main witness, Former FBI Agent Al fred C. Baldwin, admitted at the trial of Liddy and McCord that he had monitored many of the conversations of Democrats on a radio receiver in the Howard Johnson's motel across the street from the Watergate. But Baldwin also insisted that he could not recall to whom at the Nixon re-election committee he had delivered records of the intercepted talks. "Here you are an FBI agent and you want the court and jury to believe that you gave [them] to some guard you hardly...
Whole communities are utterly dependent on the auto. Wall, S. Dak., a town of 800, boasts four ultramodern motels, three new gas stations, a bevy of postcard stands, a famous drugstore that does more than $1,000,000 worth of business annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant...
Although the original plan was in compliance with the zoning code, the projected height and the signs caused the Harvard Square Development Task Force and the Neighborhood Ten Association to protest construction of the motel...
...RECREATION INDUSTRY faces a steep decline because the country will have to get over its addiction to automobile vacations-while airline flights are being reduced too. Drive-in restaurants, hotel and motel chains and ski resorts are obvious potential sufferers. Though some ski-resort operators remain hopeful, Frederick Andresen, president of Ski Industries America, worried that a mandatory Sunday closing of gas stations may threaten 750,000 jobs and $2 billion in business. Some analysts expect sales of cameras and film to drop, because they are largely bought by vacationers. Las Vegas is still booming; MGM this week will open...
...charmed by and had blindly pursued in the name of fame and love of God as but the echo of an echo. The culture I aspired to see clearly would always by drowned by initial perceptions. Sunk beneath the latest translation and the re-re-echo. The Shangri-La Motel but the third version of an ersat movie. Of course the power of the original story remains and a core of great value transmitted, but this perception is not reality...