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...brotherhood. But sometimes there just isn't enough to share. The 2,500 hippies who live in 16 pastoral communes around Taos, N. Mex., have begun slamming doors on newcomers. "When a transient arrives looking for a place to crash," says one communard, "we send him to a motel. We aren't even telling him how to get to the communes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Closed Communes | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Susan Saved. At this point, the soundtrack voice interrupts: "As a prostitute, Samantha Jane makes 20 times as much as she'd make as a secretary." The scene shows a young man and a big-bosomed brunette in what appears to be a motel room. Says the brunette: "I need it all the time now." Says Mrs. Shriver: "You make a film like this for a couple of thousand dollars and gross ten or twenty times as much. All you need is a bed, a photographer, and a man and a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morals: Defense Against Dirt | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...being brought back all but once, is strictly a publicist's pipedream. "I didn't put out any of those stories." He "didn't get a penny" from the documentary movie about him, Don't Look Back. His best songs have been written in motel rooms and cars. "I try to write the song when it comes . . . And when they don't come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: A Folk Hero Speaks | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...malaise that drifts like the coastal fog takes constantly changing forms. The population seems forever to be shifting fitfully, as if everyone is looking for a better motel. Some 500 people a day move out of the state altogether. Among the seekers who stay are a large number of the troubled souls, mainly young and middleaged, who join encounter groups, which proliferate in California like steelhead and artichokes and the wines that go with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: LABORATORY IN THE SUN: THE PAST AS FUTURE | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...such other ventures as the teaching of foreign languages and the publication of Travel & Camera magazine, which Amexco established by purchasing and redesigning U.S. Camera and Travel magazine. In June, the company began a computerized service that can provide almost instantaneous reservations at some 250,000 hotel and motel rooms between Boston and Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A License to Print Money | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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