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...first "vacancy" sign they see, say the executives of Holiday Inns, the nation's most ubiquitous innkeeper. At the first cheap place they can find, contend the officers of Motel 6, a chain whose $6-a-person basic rate has inspired competitors across the nation to pare their prices. "At my place," answers Earl Gagosian, president of a California-based chain of just about the most expensive motels in the country...
Author-Reporter John Hersey (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Algiers Motel Incident) got out of Yale with the class of 1936. The subject of his book is Yale during last spring's May Day demonstrations, when undergraduates supported eight Black Panthers accused of murder, kidnaping or conspiracy in New Haven. Hersey was no blimpish Old Blue come back for the weekend to gnash his teeth...
Defense Attorney Brown feels otherwise. Scarcely able to conceal his pleasure, Brown told reporters: "I think everybody was caught by surprise. I don't see how they have proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt." The following day Brown collapsed in his motel room and was later taken to a Temple, Texas, hospital. Judge Robinson adjourned the case until Brown's recovery. After the proceedings resume, the defense is expected to call Lieut. Calley as a character witness for Mitchell. His attorney has no intention of permitting Calley to testify to the substance of events...
When FBI agents captured Angela Davis in a Manhattan motel last week, it seemed that the denouement of the mystery surrounding the striking, cerebral young radical might be near. Instead, the plot only thickened. Along with Angela, federal agents arrested David Poindexter, a black Chicagoan with known Communist ties. They also introduced another new, if slightly aging, character into the drama-the Communist Party, U.S.A. The result was a baffling mixture of Old Left and New, with Angela the pivotal figure...
Division, was sharing a motel room with SLED Chief Strom...