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...just one parable of the car as an accomplice of history. Other stories are poignant (the Okies on the road in the Dust Bowl), and some are epic (the jeep in the war). The symbiotic ecology of car and economy, which continues to this day, gave rise to the motel (the first chain, Holiday Inn, started in 1952) and to the Golden Arches (Ray Kroc bought the fledgling roadside food chain of the McDonald brothers in 1961). Las Vegas grew out of traffic, with Californians driving in on Highway 91 at the rate of 20,000 a weekend (they...
Even a moderate like Jordan was a target. In 1980 a white supremacist took aim with a .30-06 rifle and shot him in the back in a motel parking lot in Fort Wayne, Ind. The crime was committed at 2 a.m. as Jordan, who had delivered a speech on race relations earlier that night, was arriving back at his motel with a blond divorce who had been entertaining him at her home. It was explained that Jordan and the woman had been up late discussing racial issues...
...made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads--in a Southern California motel room. Cooke made it to the next level; Humphrey didn't. Fortunately, he had work...
...Kevorkian delivered Foldes' body to the local emergency room in person ? the first time he has done so in over a year. The previous 17 Kevorkian patients were all found in Detroit motel rooms with notes to call Fieger. Could it be that Dr. Death is again making house calls...
...that G. Love should stick to a formula; any good artist must try new things and unsuccessful attempts will often precede successful ones. Yet his self-titled debut, or--if hearing a white guy rap badly but charmingly is too much--his sophomore release, Coast to Coast Motel, would be a more fitting introduction to his music...