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...year because of the bribes that contractors pay the police. The records of seven of the city's top hotels showed that they have been giving the cops $60,000 worth of free meals and rooms a year. From January to May of this year the New York Hilton provided 144 meals to 80 cops for a total bill of $4,662. In the first half of 1971, the Taft Hotel supplied free rooms for cops at a cost of $2,520. Though unlawful tips to public employees are punishable by up to a year in prison...
...Hilton. Phillips' revelations caused predictable outrage among New York cops. Even Commissioner Patrick Murphy, who has been vigorously shaking up the department and coming down hard on corrupt cops, thought that the Knapp Commission had gone too far. One "rogue cop," he objected, was smearing the entire force-and indeed Phillips had nothing to lose by telling a lurid story. But Murphy took the matter seriously enough to suspend temporarily his newly appointed chief of detectives, Albert Seedman, who had been given an $83 dinner for four on the house at the New York Hilton last March. After...
...President paid a surprise visit to the league convention at Washington's Statler Hilton to promise that "we are checking every possible lead, wherever it comes from." But he coupled his reassurance with a warning: "We are dealing with a savage enemy, one with no concern for humanitarian ideals." The next day the convention voted by a substantial majority, to avoid "political" positions. At the same time, the families moved their next convention date from September 1972 to May, so that they can attempt to turn their appeal into political clout during next year's presidential campaign...
...Baseball-card collecting, still largely a kids' pastime, has recently been heavily infiltrated by serious adults. Last month 500 collectors from mid-America convened at the Detroit Hilton Hotel for the second annual Midwest Sports Collectors Convention. For two days collectors bought, sold and swapped cards portraying players as famous as Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker and as little known as Elon (Chief) Hogsett, a Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns pitcher...
...When it came time to make this decision," Cowles sadly told a press conference at the New York Hilton Hotel, "I thought back over Look's 35 years of constructive, responsible and award-winning journalism and my heart said 'Keep it going.' But my head said 'Suspend it,' and there was really no other way." Ironically, he added, reader response to subscription offers has recently been the best in Look's history. "Now, at the end," Cowles lamented, "we have the most interested and best educated audience we have ever had. We tried...