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...Norman Andersen, a motel owner, reports that when his overnight guests pick up the morning paper they exclaim: "Oh, no, not Watergate again...
...hearing was the first in a number of meetings devoted to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's (CRA) plan to bring a motel, a retail shopping complex, one million square feet of office space, 400 middle and upper income apartments and town houses and a 2000-car garage to a site known as the Golden Triangle...
...reasons of the traditional kind: his wife went mad and killed herself by swallowing Drano; his hostile son is a homosexual who plays piano in a cocktail lounge; and his mistress, of whom he wants to know "what life is all about," suggests that the site across from their motel room would be a good place for him to buy her a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. More important than any of this, though, is the fact that Dwayne's own body has been "manufacturing certain chemicals which unbalanced his mind...
...speech at the Midland City Festival of the Arts, and he hitchhikes to Midland City. He arrives on the wrong side of town and wades through a polluted creek that leaves his feet sealed in a coating of liquid plastic. Defiantly nacreous-footed, he wanders on into the motel cocktail lounge where Dwayne Hoover, after several drinks, staggers up to him and cries: "Give me the message! The message, please." Kilgore Trout thrusts forth one of his 117 unsuccessful novels, whose message is, "You are the only creature in the entire universe who has a free will ... Everybody else...
...Magruder of C.R.P. (the Committee for the Re-Election of the President) had been dispensing money from a secret campaign fund, and that the money had been rerouted through a Mexican lawyer. TIME was first to reveal that the bugging devices planted at the Watergate were monitored from a motel across the street by agents of the C.R.P...