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...more a week. Business is up 20% at J.C. Penney's, and it would be more than double that if the store had more space. It hopes to move to the new shopping center now being planned, the town's first. Neon lights blink NO VACANCY outside motels charging $35 a night, cash in advance. "Tourists don't stand a chance," says Jennifer Barclay, manager of the Vagabond Motel. Exults Alan Graban, president of the First Wyoming Bank, who has seen his bank's assets double in five years: "This whole thing is simply fantastic...
...into the hundreds. Doug Melton, 26, moved from California several months ago and works as an oilfield laborer, but he and his brother David live in a tepee seven miles out of town. Says Melton: "No way am I going to lay out $ 1,000 a month for a motel room...
...fire safety remains mostly a local responsibility. Across the nation, the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history* has kindled questions about the safety of hotels and high-rise buildings in general. There are more than 12,000 hotel and motel fires in the U.S. each year, claiming an average of 160 lives. The U.S. Fire Administration, an arm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, can suggest guidelines but cannot enforce them. As a result, fire codes vary greatly from place to place. In New York City, for example, hotels are required to have a system of water pumps...
...attendant at the combined bus terminal motel in Manchester glances at the city's Union Leader, tool of conservative publisher William Loeb, which has Ronald Reagan splayed all over the front page. "Every day, the same thing," he says...
...court or to the gallows. He still raises cattle on his ten thousand acres. Pepper still hunts, but Capote hints that Quinn will never be caught. His message, told in prose that floats across the American plains, from New York to Venice to Istanbul and back to the Prairie Motel in the "small western state," is clear: we will always be "detestable...