Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conrad Hilton Hotel, where the President was to address a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, was patrolled by hundreds of uniformed police, scores of detectives equipped with walkie-talkies, undercover agents in jeans and leather jackets, plus plainclothes policewomen in slacks...
Closed Windows. Armed with metal detectors, police scanned the crowds outside on Michigan Avenue as well as the 1,000 Republicans inside the hotel, who lined up patiently to be electronically frisked for weapons before ascending an escalator to the grand ballroom for the dinner. For blocks around the Hilton, policemen on rooftops restlessly searched the area with binoculars. Every window in the 19-story Y.M.C.A., one block south of the Hilton, was ordered closed. Some guests in the Hilton insisted on peering out of their windows to see what all the commotion was about. When they did, they were...
...Hilton, the traditional gateway for Presidents, Kings and heads of state. But all they got was a fleeting glimpse of Ford's motorcade zooming past on its way to the rear service entrance, normally used by maids and waiters. The small crowd clustered there saw Ford for perhaps five seconds. Reported TIME'S Midwest bureau chief Benjamin Cate: "He alighted from the presidential limousine, forced a smile across his face and waved sheepishly while security men swarmed around him. The wave seemed almost a gesture of embarrassment, as though Ford were saying to those watching that...
Half an hour later, Ford's motorcaravan arrived in suburban Skokie (pop. 66,200) and pulled up before the 13-story North Shore Hilton. Half of the city's 61-man police force joined the cordon of Secret Service agents protecting the hotel. To help out, a dozen men who had been fired from the force in a contract dispute last summer joined their former colleagues on guard. About 500 of the city's residents stood shivering in the night outside the hotel when Ford arrived, and he waved for about 30 seconds to acknowledge their cheers...
...story Hilton, which is half way between Buckingham Palace and the American embassy, was filled to capacity with late-season tourists. Possibly 100 people were milling around in the lobby when the tragedy took place. Just before noon, a switchboard operator at Associated Newspapers got a call from a man with an Irish accent warning that "a bomb will go off at the Hilton in ten minutes." Squad cars arrived at the hotel, but police were still trying to decide how to clear the area when, according to Anthony Peters, who manages the British Airways desk, "there was an almighty...