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Except for hot dogs and other processed meats, much of which comes from Holiday Inns' Chicago commissary, the motels buy most food locally, but according to strict specifications. T-bone steaks must be either choice or prime, weigh between 12 oz. and 16 oz., and be an inch thick. To keep the meals uniform, company manuals urge local managers to buy certain preferred brands, including Dole pineapple juice, Campbell's soups and General Mills pancake mix (under the company formula, a 5-lb. box should make 100 pancakes). All food portions are carefully measured. The manuals even give...
...tawny good looks and shapely legs (she is 5 ft. 6 in., one inch shorter than George) carried her to the semifinals of a Miss Alabama contest before she became the star of the Cypress Gardens water ski show in Florida -and married John Snively III, a millionaire whose family at one time owned the Gardens. After seven years of marriage and two sons, Jim and Josh, the Snivelys were divorced...
Simon was disgruntled at hour's end, having spent his energies for a piddling crowd. But he sparked up by the time he hit Mass Ave the next day. He hustled his six foot four inch frame with ramrod posture through Cambridge sidewalks which could barely hold the both of us, and only for an instant lost his self-control--breaking into a half-stumble and a nervous twitch when he dropped his coat at Schoenhof's. He whisked through the Crimson building for a 30-second stop, and then went past to the Charles...
...reaching the otherwise inaccessible mountain hideouts of the Meo tribesmen. Now they produce STOL's for the Air Force for use in psychological warfare (equipped with speakers to broadcast to the country side), armed reconnaisance and precision air drops. The planes come armed with 3-barrel gatling guns, 2.75-inch rockets, and several new types of bombs, including TV. and laser-guided bombs, and bombs which follow a moving truck by homing in on its ignition system. The U.S. is giving them to the South Vietnamese as part of the Vietnamization program...
...edges of the pool. Often when I came in to hand in my ticket and get my locker key I'd have to go in search of one of these women; they were forever making and drinking cups of tea. One of the boys would move his head an inch or two in the direction of the staffroom and sing out, "Bridget, finish your...