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...later, Vice President George Bush, echoing the themes stressed by the President, was roundly booed by an audience gathered at the Washington Hilton for the third International Conference on AIDS. In an aside that was picked up on an open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested...
...Maxwell called it quits, long-suffering Allegis -- owner of United Air Lines, Hertz, and the Westin Hotels and Hilton International chains -- announced a ploy much like Harcourt's. The Allegis directors authorized a cash payment of $60 a share, worth some $3.5 billion. The move came two days after the New York City-based investment firm of Coniston Partners declared that it owned 13% of Allegis' shares and wanted to gain control of the 16- member board...
They began lining up outside the New York Hilton's Sutton Ballroom at 5:30 in ^ the afternoon; by the time the doors opened at 6:45, recalls Physicist Randy Simon, a member of TRW's Space and Technology Group, "it was a little bit frightening. There was a surge forward, and I was in front. I walked into the room, but it wasn't under my own power." Recalls Stanford Physicist William Little: "I've never seen anything like it. Physicists are a fairly quiet lot, so to see them elbowing and fighting each other to get into...
...earnest attempt to redress a festering grievance, not as film art, that The Hanoi Hilton deserves attention. Writer-Director Lionel Chetwynd's intention is to re-create the life endured in North Viet Nam's Hoa Lo prison by American POWs, in some cases for as long as eight years. Their lot consisted of systematic degradation, maddening isolation and the grinding $ waste of years, punctuated by episodes of ghastly pain. But, presented artlessly, this is not the stuff of compelling drama. There is not enough filth in the corners, not enough ambiguity when the movie shows prisoners resisting the pressure...
...hordes mellowed out on the beer and sun, Hilton Hotel Manager Mark Hamner declared, "We're what Lauderdale was ten years ago." But others worried about how much more carnival the isle could stand. Pointed out Mayor Pinkerton: "We're not hostile to anyone...