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...Murphy had sold his insurance brokerage business, an office building and their house. The reasons for their departure, according to Murphy, were increasing governmental intervention in business, a flat economy and the prospect of Quebec's secession. In Florida, the Murphys became owners of a 26-unit motel and apartment complex on the heavily traveled north-south Interstate AlA. They paid $100,000 for the place, spent more than $40,000 to refurbish it from reception room to flagstaff, which now flies the Maple Leaf and the blue and white Quebec flag, along with the Stars and Stripes. With...
...clannish defiance. Nixon rightly sensed that there he would find, unregenerate, some of the believers he described to H.R. Haldeman in the spring of 1973, when his Administration was in the first stages of its slow-motion collapse. "All Nixon did was stand by his friends," said the local motel owner in Hyden. "And that is one of the traits of us mountain people...
...limousine swept him into Hyden, a dusty red-brick collection of small shops, two pool halls, a drive-in movie and a motel, Nixon read banners that said THANKS FOR REVENUE SHARING, NIXON IS THE ONE, and NOW MORE THAN EVER. After a night in the motel, Nixon rode to the dedication, where he sat drenched in sweat in a non-air-conditioned auditorium packed with 4,500 people in 95° heat. A stream of east Kentucky dignitaries took their bows. Then Nixon, who looked wilted and dazed in those ceremonies, rallied for a 40-minute speech notable...
...idea was as obvious as the mess created by a six-year-old tackling a bowl of spaghetti. If Holiday Inns sanitized and made respectable the once tacky motel, and McDonald's gave the nation hamburgers without heartburn, why couldn't the same techniques of standardization and mass marketing be applied to day-care centers for children...
...Paris, the unsuspecting tourist may wander into a deceptively simple-looking restaurant and pay $20 for a plate of fresh asparagus and $217 for a bottle of Château Latour '55. The Paris Sheraton, which on the luxury scale is about equivalent to a better-class U.S. motel, charges $90 a night for a double room. At a top restaurant in Venice or Rome, an a la carte meal for two will cost up to $50 without cocktails or wine. A room for two at a first-class hotel averages about $35 a night...