Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...tired I can't even talk." John Giumarra Sr. replied: "Don't talk, just listen." Chavez agreed: "We've been waiting for this for five years, so if you are willing to talk, I guess I will." They met at 2 a.m. in a Delano motel and talked for six hours. That morning there were full-fledged negotiations between a six-man U.F.W.O.C. team and 26 major grape growers from the rich San Joaquin Valley. The meetings went on for three days and through much of three nights. By the middle of last week...
...degrees and all wear blazers; they leave their nightsticks in their patrol cars, and will soon operate in neighborhood squads virtually without orders from headquarters. Similar teams in Syracuse introduce themselves to local residents by holding neighborhood kaffeeklatsches. In one spectacular case, two young gunmen held up a Syracuse motel and fled. The police dispatcher got more than a dozen calls from residents who described the fugitives in detail; team cops caught the culprits ten blocks away...
...good many campers will settle for somewhat less. They want a flat place to park or pitch a tent (since portable gas refrigerators usually work only on the level), plus clean toilets and showers, and perhaps a swimming pool-at a price considerably below motel rates. To fill those needs, private campgrounds are opening all over the U.S.; they now offer about 427,000 individual campsites. As might be expected in a business where standards vary widely, the customer wants the additional comfort of a reliable chain's name. That in turn has led to the fast-growing business...
...Boston will have youth centers, parks, and playgrounds galore, all full of unique playthings, bright murals, awnings and light shows. And traditional art works like paintings and sculpture swill be done at the giant city-scale to propagate public pleasure-some billboards will even hold cheery graphics instead of motel...