Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When FBI agents captured Angela Davis in a Manhattan motel last week, it seemed that the denouement of the mystery surrounding the striking, cerebral young radical might be near. Instead, the plot only thickened. Along with Angela, federal agents arrested David Poindexter, a black Chicagoan with known Communist ties. They also introduced another new, if slightly aging, character into the drama-the Communist Party, U.S.A. The result was a baffling mixture of Old Left and New, with Angela the pivotal figure...
Last week, on a day that superficially at least seemed to be less lonely than most, Janis Joplin died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...
...director J. Edgar Hoover announced that Davis was taken into custody in a New York motel early last evening...
Play it as it lays, Harry Wyeth told his daughter. Wyeth, a gambler in the respected, dead-end tradition of the pioneer. Losing their home in Reno, he moved his wife and child to Silver Wells, Nevada, there built a motel "that would have been advantageously situated at a freeway exit had the freeway been built." Maria grows up, in turn loses, in Los Angeles, in Vegas, in marriage and at motherhood. Ends up in Neuropsychiatric. "I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last...
...Morris, 69, stage and screen actor, who in 1941 established th,e role of Boston Blackie and in 36 movie sequels over the next nine years played the consummate detective with the square jaw and slicked-back hair for millions of moviegoers; of an overdose of barbiturates in his motel room in New Hope, Pa., where he was starring as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial...