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Secret of the motor inn's success is its convenience and the fact that the U.S. citizen hates to be far separated from his car. Once the motorist arrives at the usual hotel, his car is taken from him and deposited in some costly limbo, from which he must bail it out with what seems like an everlasting stream of tips and usually a sizable garage bill...
...black from rain-hatted head right on down past pelvis-hugging slacks to cowboy-booted toes, joined Husband Eddie Fisher, 33, on a shopping expedition in Rome. Even in this relatively chaste garb, Liz proved capable of disrupting traffic, had to leap from the path of a gaping motorist who forgot for a moment where his brake...
...automobile and its rail-less track became an autocrat and a sacred cow; no one dared stand in its way. Family homesteads, a town's ancient elms, historic monuments were sacrificed to spare the passing motorist a few minutes' delay. Bypasses and underpasses and overpasses snaked through and around the cities. Some of the results were beautiful as well as functional; some were just functional. In Trinidad. Colo., for example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town...
Candid Camera (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dorothy Collins poses as a motorist in distress, waving down passing suckers to help her change a flat, asking each one to please work quietly to avoid disturbing her husband, who is asleep in the back seat. Repeat...
...Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon and the surrounding Utah badlands. They had stopped on the highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground, but Mrs. Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell...