Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the dregs of George McGovern's presidential concession speech in the background. Brooke told a victory party of 250 people in the ballroom of the Sheraton Plaza Hotel that his resounding victory makes me an even more tree man in the United States Senator...
During the night, family, friends, and close well-wishers of the senator crowded into a sixth floor suite of the Sheraton Plaza, watching the returns come in on T.V. Downstairs in the ballroom. Your Father's Moustache and Don Russell's five-piece band beat out festive old-timey tunes for 250 of the faithful...
...14th-floor ballroom at the Parker House was half-empty throughout the early part of the evening. Four television sets drew occasional responses from the crowd...
...reporters with a newsroom, free telephones, and free food and drink. The few journalists who were so elite that they did not have to file a story on the day's events by early-evening deadline time headed for the bar. Most of the rest headed for the Grand Ballroom to write their stories. As deadline time approached, the newsmen were feverishly reconstructing what they had seen that afternoon--50 miles of Westchester County; boisterous crowds; touching incidents; boring speeches given by various Republicans; even an assassination attempt that had been foiled by the New Rochelle Police--trying to figure...
...constant reminder of that day, especially when he walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings, as well as a man-size doll hanging by its neck in the ballroom. When concert tours and promotional appearances do not beckon, Alice can usually be found in his Greenwich "pad," curled up in an armchair with a six-pack of beer, seeking further inspiration from...