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Come with Me. Henderson's derring-do (when stock prices are right), as well as his skillfully frugal management, have pyramided Sheraton in 25 years from a single money-losing hotel to a corporate giant with estimated assets of $400 million and 66 hotels scattered from Tel Aviv to Honolulu. (Sheraton, which has more hotels, vies for the title of "world's largest hotel chain" with Hilton, which has more rooms.) And while occupancy rates in most U.S. hotels have dropped steadily in the past decade, Sheraton's rate has been climbing; in May it stood...
...France's Flight 136 from Paris landed at Tel Aviv's Lydda International Airport and discharged a dozen passen gers. One of them, a balding man in dark glasses, made straight for the arrival hut, displayed a Canadian passport, No. 4-328384. Name: Beras Goble. Age: 72. Occupation: Engineer. Permanent Residence: Montreal. The police and customs passed him on quickly...
...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...
Fearing that pressure for clemency might build up abroad, the Israeli Cabinet decided to act quickly. Before midnight, warders entered Eichmann's cell on the third floor of Ramla prison, near Tel Aviv. He had drunk half a bottle of Carmel, a dry red Israeli wine, while awaiting their arrival. To the Rev. William Hull, a Canadian-born Evangelist who had been acting as his spiritual adviser, he said: "Today I am not prepared to discuss the Bible. I don't have time to waste." Then the cell door swung open and the party marched down the corridor...
...Santa Fe Opera, the Hamburg Staatsoper and the New York City Ballet, the dancers and singers were preparing gala evenings in his honor. In Mexico City and Melbourne. Johannesburg. Moscow and Tel Aviv, symphony orchestras were tuning up for concerts to celebrate his birthday. Recordings of the old man's music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky...