Word: fairmont
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Respectful Hearing. Beginning his tour in San Francisco. Symington was taken tightly in tow by Roger Kent. Northern California chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that...
...PLUM Fairmont...
...Singer Mathis has also boosted himself during the past year into the most valuable new property in show business. Last week, for the sake of "prestige" (and $2,000 a week plus a percentage of the take), Johnny checked into the Venetian Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and showed the home-town folks how he had made it big so fast...
Closing the gap of production is not only a huge task but an urgent one. From the first luncheon in the Fairmont's ornate Gold Room, speaker after speaker at the San Francisco conference traced the irresistible upsurge of world population and the revolution of rising expectations that has grown from its hunger for a better life (see The Population Explosion). Even for the massive reservoirs of entrepreneurial brains and money represented on Nob Hill, the immensity of the opportunity often paled beside the complexity of the challenge...
BUSINESSMEN never forget that the chief business of business is business. Whether gathered in small groups in the crowded lobby of the Fairmont Hotel, over cocktails in hotel suites or striding along San Francisco's streets, they found themselves working through the practicability of deals that ringed the globe, rang with the names of every free-world currency...