Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days in February, and then to Peking for further talks on improving relations between the U.S. and China. He held his first press conference in four months and denounced his old tormentors as "the so-called better people." He joined in public prayer with Billy Graham at the Washington Hilton, greeted British Prime Minister Edward Heath on the White House lawn and presided over a mass swearing in of his Cabinet...
...club along with the seriousness of a newspaper. Most of the clubbiness of the place probably died in 1885, when the Crimson vacated Stoughton for the "front room, one flight up". In 1895, the paper moved once again, this time to 1304 Massachusetts Avenue, in a building known as Hilton's block. Here the paper knew luxury at last, for it rented three stories worth of space; an upper floor for the President, Managing Editor, and Sanctum, a ground floor for the Business Board, and a basement for the candidates and printing presses. This arrangement lasted six years, until...
Bennett's notion of saloons must be pretty grandiose; in recent years he has sung at such places as Carnegie Hall and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, the Empire Room in Chicago, the International Hilton in Las Vegas, the White House in Washington. From his club and concert engagements alone, he grosses $1,000,000 a year. In addition, he turns out a steady-selling LP approximately every six months. For that matter, he even makes occasional movie or TV appearances; last week he was taping a TV special in Hawaii...
...Excited but not nervous" was the way Raquel Welch described her state of mind as she set out, with a midget and an array of animated puppets, to make her nightclub debut at the Las Vegas Hilton. Skeptics may have expected Raquel to provide little more than a few wiggles, but according to Variety's dazzled correspondent, she "terped with know-how and chirped with appealing huskiness." All in all, he concluded, it was "one of the most unique shows ever presented in Las Vegas...
...election night, the Moakley victory was irreversible. Inside the Hilton ballroom. O'Neill introduced hundreds of Moakley supporters to "the next congressman of the 9th congressional district" as Moakley and his wife flashed victory "Vs" to the rejoicing capacity crowd. Amid the cheers, someone menponed that McGovern had conceded, but the news was squelched in the triumphant uproar. "He's dynamite, isn't he?" swooned one admirer as Moakley began to speak...