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...Washingtonians, from Cabinet officers to Government clerks, the orange-roofed Hot Shoppes are as well known as the Washington Monument. Last week Hot Shoppe Owner J. Willard Marriott branched out with another sort of monument-one of the world's largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome...
...Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good, and swiftly served in scrupulously clean surroundings. Now Hot Shoppes, Inc. have 66 restaurants in eleven states and the District of Columbia, last year fed over 40 million customers, grossed upwards of $29 million. Last week, with his motel already booking reservations into May and June, Marriott had sites for three more motels on the East Coast...
...assistant managing editor of the New Orleans States and one of our string correspondents when he came to the staff in 1951 as Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks...
...Power Elite. In Hartford, Conn., the State Labor Commissioner Renato Ricciuti ruled that Motel Owner Alex Crawford must pay his night clerk the state minimum wage of 75? an hour, in spite of Crawford's explanation that the clerk, who works a 93-hour week for 54? an hour, is an executive...
Hart Brake Motel (Homer and Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...