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...that they have to protect themselves against possible drops in official rates that can come at any time. Different banks in the same city offer exchange rates that vary by as much as 4% on the same currencies, and hotels change money at substantially worse rates than banks. The Hilton in Dusseldorf, for example, gave only 3.25 Deutsche Mark to the dollar last week, while the official rate stood at 3.38. Dublin's Royal Hibernian Hotel offered 37 new pence to the dollar, while American Express gave 40-a spread of 7½%. For those who wish...
Against a background of country and western music played by the Shannonites. Hicks interpreted her victory as a victory for "law and order" at the victory celebration Tuesday night at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. "The vote tomorrow will show that Kevin and I are close, but it will also show that the people of Boston want law and order brought back to the city," Hicks told her workers...
Against a background of country and western music played by the Shannonites, Hicks interpreted her victory as a victory for "law and order" at the victory celebration Tuesday night at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. "The vote tomorrow will show that Kevin and I are close, but it will also show that the people of Boston want law and order brought back to the city," Hicks told her workers...
Against a background of country and western music played by the Shannonites, Hicks interpreted her victory as a victory for "law and order" at the victory celebration Tuesday night at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. "The vote tomorrow will show that Kevin and I are close, but it will also show that the people of Boston want law and order brought back to the city," Hicks told her workers...
Itinerant buck passers, including some 4,000,000 Americans living and vacationing abroad, faced a confusing array of exchange rates. Early in the week, the London Hilton was gouging its guests $2.75 for the pound, while the American Express office in that city was gamely taking traveler's checks at the official rate of $2.42. A few rapacious landladies at London bed-and-breakfast lodgings were squeezing $3 to the pound out of gullible visitors. Tourists did not know what their dollars would be worth the next minute, or in the next country. From Canada to Japan, some merchants...