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...dwarf, TV, is parodied in the second playlet, and what might be merely predictable is so superbly done that it provides porcupine-quilled social comment. The third playlet is simple and startling. A huge papier-mache Mother Hubbard doll intones a litany of all the beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed...
...million dollar motel, completely financed by the Harvard Trust, is expected to open early in 1968 on the 1.5 acre site formerly occupied by Richards Drive-In Restaurant. It will contain 203 guest rooms, a 200-seat restaurant, a rooftop swimming pool, and a two-level parking...
Alfred Clifford, vice president and real estate officer of the Harvard Trust, said that the excellent location was what sold the bank on the idea. The motel will be directly accessible from the Cambridge-Allston exit of the Massachusetts Turn-pike extension...
...Kennedy Library will surely increase the need for motel facilities," Clifford said, "but there was already a growing demand in Cambridge." The main problem has been land, he added...
...next day's Delano Record stressed that these results were still unofficial, but the Teamster trucks were conspicuously missing from their places at the motel, and the Teamsters office on Main Street was closed...