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...large, administrators have taken the students' plight philosophically. Not so, however, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., which has been forced to house students in motel rooms near campus until new dorms are finished. As a result, 105 George Mason students are enjoying maid service and color TV. The school's tab? Over...
...Yazoo Motel was taken over en bloc by the White House, with the mystically regarded communications equipment quartered there. In Stubb's restaurant next door. Sheriff Homer Hood showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night...
Closing In. Incredulous police strapped a tape recorder on Rothkopf's back and photographed him at half a dozen furtive meetings with Yarbrough, in an Austin motel room and various Houston parking lots and fast-food outlets. The tapes reveal a vengeful Yarbrough considering a murder contract on Bill Kemp, who had been given immunity from prosecution in return for testimony about Yarbrough's role in a 1974 fraud scheme. At the final meeting on June 10, however, Yarbrough turned cautious: "This is not the time to do it. The FBI is investigating me for all sorts...
...whose life of crime has been mostly one fizzle after another, was back where he had always longed to be: at the center of national attention. With his renewed prominence, painful memories-and nagging questions-flooded back concerning his slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a Memphis motel balcony on April...
...stranger only as "Raoul." He told Huie that Raoul had asked him to smuggle unnamed contraband into the U.S. from both Canada and Mexico, then buy a car and a rifle in Birmingham, and finally to drive to Memphis and check into a sleazy rooming house facing the Lorraine Motel, where King was staying. Ray insisted later to his lawyers that he was not even in the room overlooking the motel when King was shot. He was fixing the spare tire on his car. Ray contended that Raoul must have done the shooting...