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...this-the editorials, the party pros, his own senior staff-led McGovern to buckle late last week. On Friday afternoon he telephoned Jules Witcover of the Los Angeles Times at the Hi-Ho Motel in Custer. McGovern invited Witcover to his cabin for an hour-and-a-half interview. Witcover's lengthy piece conveyed McGovern's message: public reaction to the disclosure of Eagleton's past health problems has been so negative that Eagleton must withdraw -voluntarily. McGovern told Witcover that he was confident of Eagleton's capacity to be President, but that Eagleton...
...Saturday. It's open for dinner until 10 on Sunday. A hostess shows you to the nearest table with a view of Mt. Auburn Street, with its trolleys, parking lot, and Treadway Inn. Passersby peer at you from the sidewalk, through unwashed windows. The three dining rooms are oaken, motel style with Dubuffet reproductions on the wall...
Died. Howard D. Johnson, 75, founder of the roadside restaurant and motel chain that bears his name; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dissatisfied as the proprietor of a drugstore and newsstand during the '20s, Johnson went looking for a product "I could call by my own name." He settled first on ice cream, opened a beachside stand, then in 1929 launched his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass. He then combined the Howard Johnson name and know-how with money from other small entrepreneurs by franchising the familiar orange, blue and white highway rest stops across the country. They...
Miami Beach will not be the only resort drawing political coverage. Edward Kennedy took himself firmly out of the running last week and expects to stay at Hyannisport, Mass., during the Democratic Convention. But at least one network and a number of newspapers have booked motel rooms near by for the week beginning July 10-just in case some lightning strikes there anyway...
...John Conforti, he and his wife and three children are now pondering their future in a motel...