Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk. (Champaign, Ill., buses have been so equipped for two decades.) In Sacramento and Palo Alto, ramps have been built into curbs at virtually all commercial intersections. Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains are setting aside special rooms in their new buildings for the disabled; Holiday Inns has been doing so since 1969, allotting one room in every 100 to wheelchair users. These rooms have wide doors, bathrooms with railings, trapeze arrangements to help paraplegics...
...Harvard administrator, the oil crisis and the resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...
...been closed because he liked mine so much," recalls Brandt. "Since his feet were different sizes, he needed two pairs. On Sunday, we had to get a collection of electric shavers as presents for friends." Later that same evening, the director of a manufacturing company "came to the Berlin Hilton to take an order for a considerable number of small ashtrays ... Johnson's disarming explanation: 'They look like a dollar and cost me only...
After the Nieman dinner--a five-hour session of cocktails, roast beef, wine and more cocktails--Rosenthal headed for bed at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Just after he fell asleep, the phone rang. I apologized for calling so late an hour...
...some profit. Besides threatening Sea Pines' future earnings, the dispute has deprived the company of some ready cash. When the Kuwaitis failed to make a $50,000 payment to Sea Pines in February, Fraser was able to meet his payroll only through the sale of a lot on Hilton Head...