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...trip is short, happy and frustrating. Republican Representative J. Glenn Beall of Maryland, marking time in the House while preparing to take over the Senate seat of Joseph Tydings, complains that "no one moves over there, or over here, until the day of swearing in. The packing cases just pile up in both places. That may seem kind of funny, but actually it makes you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress: The Session in Between | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

Until he injured his left wrist last week, Manning had as good a claim to the trophy as anyone in college football. He became known as Heismanning last season when he passed for nine touchdowns and ran for 14 more to pile up a remarkable 2,264 yds. in total offense. So far this season, he has tossed eleven touchdown passes in six games. A roll-out passer who likes to look in one direction and throw in another, the 6-ft, 3½-in., 205-lb. Manning has the size to uncork the long bomb -or fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hustling the Heismam Hopefuls | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...places his newest motels in the middle of downtown areas -often miles from the main highways, but convenient to theaters and stores. Behind gold-and-white facades are elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal Inn-at-the-Wharf in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motels: Riches from Royal Treatment | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

While railroads and some airlines are dropping short-haul routes, Kerrigan plans to pile on more nonstop runs of 200 to 300 miles. In a "Greyhound Savings Time" ad campaign, the line is stressing the difference in fares between air and bus travel. It notes that a round-trip ticket between Chicago and Detroit is $27 cheaper by bus than by air. Other sample savings: $17 between Sacramento and San Francisco, and $25 between New York and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fighting a Doggy Image | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

Dartmouth scored the first three times it had the ball and went on to smash Brown, 42-14. The Indians are so well-balanced this year that none of the starters have had a chance to pile up impressive individual statistics. The second string comes in at halftime...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Big Green Machine Rolls; Yale Also Grabs Ivy Win | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

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