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Details of most cases, in the words of one Justice official, are as "dull as dishwater," and just as dirty. Typically, a group of contractors interested in winning state or federal jobs meets at a motel shortly before a scheduled bid letting and agrees in advance which of their firms will submit the low bid on each of several projects. The others promise to turn in higher figures in return for like arrangements on "their" jobs. Sometimes payoffs beyond these so-called complimentary bids are involved, as was the case with two former officials of Ashland-Warren, Inc., an Atlanta...
...money. I just didn't want to lose what I had. I'm not a rich man." For Theo Fullmer, 70, and his wife Bettie, 63, of Rexburg, Idaho, the Whoops default was their second disaster. In 1976 the Teton River Dam collapse in Idaho destroyed a motel they had owned for nearly 13 years. After the U.S. Government paid them about $100,000 for their loss, they invested $80,000 of it in Nos. 4 and 5 bonds. Says Bettie, who now works as a cook at the local high school: "You wouldn't believe...
...that People is not hooked up to the national computer reservation clearance, and its phone service is primitive. For each departure there are likely to be twice as many would-be passengers as seats. Those who lose out have the choice of taking a taxi to a nearby motel, which is not in the spirit of cut-rate fares, or sleeping on the marble floor of Newark airport's dreary North Terminal...
...pregnancy, mutual guilt, Tony's frightened vision of what marriage to his teacher might mean ("Would I be allowed to whisper and chew gum in the house?"). Before she goes home to bear his child in Kalamazoo, Miss Doubloon strikes a defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds...
...down the beachfront motel strip adjoining Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week, space buffs gathered in force. SORRY, NO VACANCY signs hung as far as 50 miles away. Some 1,600 correspondents packed the press grandstand. On the beaches around Cape Canaveral, half a million people watched. Not since the first flight of Columbia two years ago had so many enthusiasts assembled for a shuttle liftoff...