Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left before McGovern and drove over to Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge (where, incidentally, McGovern had set up camp) to have some breakfast. We were eating our eggs and muffins when the Senator walked in with his wife and aides, also seeking breakfast. He chose a table in the back of the room, next to ours, but stopped to talk to us for a while as he waited for his small encourage to catch up with...
...undecided voters of there were any. As the returns began to come in over the television that evening, and his percentage of the vote rose from 25 to 30 to 32 to 35 and finally to 37 per cent, there was jubilation in the halls of Hojo's Motor Lodge. The Senator came down at about 10:45 p.m. to make a brief speech in the jammed ballroom, thanking his hundreds of volunteers and proclaiming a moral victory. He came downstairs once more, just to shake hands with his supporters in the corridors and thank them again...
Over at the McGovern election center in Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, a crowd of reporters heard the South Dakota Senator claim a "moral victory." Asked if he had been the main factor in Muskie's less-than-expected performance, McGovern said, "Well I don't think there's any question about it. I'm emerging as the leading challenger to Ed Muskie...
Similar experiments have been under way in the U.S. since last October. The Ford Motor Co. planned and helped to inaugurate phone-bus systems in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio. Consultants from M.I.T. helped to set up another in Batavia, N.Y. But none of the U.S. experiments compares in size to the system in Regina, where Transit Manager Wally Atkinson expects to make Telebuses available to 60,000 citizens by the end of the year and to provide citywide coverage...
Three Complaints. Altman charges that homosexuals suffer from three things: persecution, discrimination and, paradoxically, tolerance. By persecution, he means police harassment in homosexual bars and meeting places. He points out that in 1970 Connecticut's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles denied a license to a man because "his homosexuality makes him an improper person to hold an operator's license." As another example of discrimination, he cites the prejudice against hiring homosexuals. "Try telling your boss you cannot move to a new job because of your lover"-the only term homosexuals have for the heterosexual equivalent of wife...