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Since it opened last October, Disney World has had to increase its staff from 5,500 to more than 10,000. In what used to be swamp country, the Disney Co. has put up two big, convention-oriented hotels with golf course and sailing facilities. The number of motel rooms in the Orlando area has doubled to 8,000 in the past seven months, and current and planned construction will raise the total to 24,000 in the next years. One would-be Orlando homeowner laments that construction of his house has been postponed indefinitely because bigger builders have cornered...
...booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people waited in vain for a whole day to get into the fully occupied Castaways motel at the north end of Miami Beach...
...those songs in which he shows off his sense of black humor, the comic is always mixed with a deep-seated sense of disgust. "Motel Blues," whose lyrics are almost more tears than words, is his best example of stark dissatisfaction and yearning, in this case, for a lover...
...class consists of ten students, of whom four are girls; three of the girls are married to three of the five married fellows in the class. They all spend an evening at a motel, which has two rooms of two single beds each and two rooms of three single beds each. Assuming that only one sex occupies any room except for married couples, who may but do not have to share a double, in how many ways can the students distribute themselves in the rooms...
...last, the patrolmen gathered on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse, where some jumped up and down and whooped their delight. Inside, the mother of one of the slain blacks cried hysterically at the verdict. The young widow of the other victim silently returned to her motel room...