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Meanwhile, Clark and Lois are sounding each other out like a pair of high school sophomores at a kitschy Niagra Falls motel. Overwhelmed by his own super-human passion, the man with x-ray vision gives in to his partner's advances. There's only one catch--as a home movie of Supermom reminds her son later that evening--you can't mess with the locals and keep your Kryptonian powers. Don't be too quick to criticize, though; if you saw Margot Kidder in a bathrobe, you too might forget about the dire state of world affairs...
American Electronic balked at the size of this order. Wilson then recruited another CIA supplier, Scientific Communications, Inc., of Dallas, to provide a second batch of prototypes. They were delivered to Wilson and Mulcahy at a motel near CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., by Joe Halpain, the Dallas firm's president. The final Gaddafi order was for 500,000 of the timers, for which he promised to pay $35 million. They cost only $2.5 million to produce. Explosives to go with the timers were illegally supplied by J.S. Brower & Associates of Pomona, Calif, another CIA contractor. Some...
South of the Border is not artificial-flowers-formica-tables-plastic-trails-through-the-living-room a little tacky. It is the showroom of tack, all the kitsch of America distilled into 100 acres by the side of 1-95. There are 304 motel units, 103 campsites, four restaurants, three gas stations, 17 stores, miniature golf, a train ride through the woods, not to mention a 200-foot observation sombrero, all based on a Mexican theme filtered through several layers of bias, ignorance and Hanna-Barbera. As the brochure says, "Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos, where Pedro...
...south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended it to get this large." "This large" means 500 guests a night at the motel and campgrounds, $20 million a year in receipts, 10-to 15,000 visitors a day through the summer and quite a few all year long. Now in his mid-60s, Schafer is "totally independent. He's a very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy man," Holliday reports...
...tree-lined streets with nice big houses, a bustling main drag, and a dusty outskirts where poor people live, with pavement for a front yard. The back road that connects South of the Border with Dillon used to be the main road, and there are only a few rundown motels and roadhouses left. One, the Stonewall Jackson Motel, seems to have caught South of the Border disease. As motorists leave Dillon, its hand-painted sign implores "Turn Around and Sleep with Jackson...