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...word that King was a "hypocrite" for coming to Memphis to lead a garbage strike and urge blacks to boycott white businesses while he himself was staying at the white-owned Holiday Inn. Two local news stories subsequently mentioned the fact. King then switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel. It was there he was shot on April 4, though the committee in no way suggests that the FBI was setting him up. That memo about the Holiday Inn contained the notation "O.K. ... H.", which was Hoover's usual note of approval...
...troubled times than it is the story of those troubled times. It is the story of a romance that Maureen Dean knew was fated to occur from the moment she met the "Brooks Brothers" tan; a romance that began with this message, scrawled in lipstick by Dean on a motel room mirror: "Smile...an owl loves ya, loves ya, yes, loves...
...tenth Democrat to declare. Although he is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair as a result of the 1972 attempt on his life, Wallace seemed determined to prove he is as salty and vigorous as ever. Appearing on a banner-draped platform at a motel in Montgomery, Ala., he threw away an eleven-page prepared speech and winged it. He was running, he said, to save the great American middle class-"the steel," as he put it, that holds the country together -from the excesses of liberals and Big Government. "You have the chance to take...
...give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have any fun at all in Acapulco, it's just an idea of a vacation that he's garnered from looking through too many magazines and watching T.V. commercials in too many motel rooms...
They are no overnight sensation, however. The grueling roadhouse gigs, dusty motel rooms and endless turnpike tours that attend the birth of almost every pop-music career merge in the show-business lexicon under the heading "dues paying." Hardly anyone escapes, least of all black rhythm and blues performers. This Georgia-born quartet spent nearly two decades in obscurity before finally scuffling into the big time...