Word: motel
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Wherever he traveled around the country in 1976, campaigning for the nomination against Jerry Ford, Reagan thought about his new retreat. In motel rooms he would step off the bedroom and bath to get an idea of room dimensions, and on the plane he drew floor plan sketches. Often he would return exhausted to Los Angeles on a Saturday night, only to leave early the next morning for a day at the ranch. He put up a fence made out of used telephone poles, carting in the 22-ft. lengths and chain-sawing them down...
Navajo, Ariz. (pop. 24), has much to offer: history (it was Arizona's first territorial capital), location (on Interstate 40 just south of the huge Navajo Indian Reservation and east of the popular Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park) and profit ($100,000 a year from its motel, café, service station and general store). As a result, Navajo has six new owners: Don and Rita Schwinghamer of Phoenix, Don's cousin Frank Schwinghamer and his wife Ann, from Canada, and their close friends Len and Betty Siebert of Bellevue, Wash...
...more a week. Business is up 20% at J.C. Penney's, and it would be more than double that if the store had more space. It hopes to move to the new shopping center now being planned, the town's first. Neon lights blink NO VACANCY outside motels charging $35 a night, cash in advance. "Tourists don't stand a chance," says Jennifer Barclay, manager of the Vagabond Motel. Exults Alan Graban, president of the First Wyoming Bank, who has seen his bank's assets double in five years: "This whole thing is simply fantastic...
...into the hundreds. Doug Melton, 26, moved from California several months ago and works as an oilfield laborer, but he and his brother David live in a tepee seven miles out of town. Says Melton: "No way am I going to lay out $ 1,000 a month for a motel room...
...fire safety remains mostly a local responsibility. Across the nation, the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history* has kindled questions about the safety of hotels and high-rise buildings in general. There are more than 12,000 hotel and motel fires in the U.S. each year, claiming an average of 160 lives. The U.S. Fire Administration, an arm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, can suggest guidelines but cannot enforce them. As a result, fire codes vary greatly from place to place. In New York City, for example, hotels are required to have a system of water pumps...