Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party at the Washington Hilton last Friday night was a grand bash. Hundreds of guests mingled convivially, munching on fried chicken, hand-carved roast beef and ham. As the good spirit, and good spirits, flowed, the only odd note was the cause of the celebration: Government employees, past and present, were saluting the abolition of their agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Wearing gloves, Margaret Neas plays the piano in the lobby bar of the Hilton Hotel every night, Monday through Friday, from 6 to 10-longer if the crowd stays lively. To her regulars she is "a legend, the most respected woman in Birmingham...
...begun earlier. In 1978, as a result of an International Amateur Athletics Federation ruling, U.S. amateurs were permitted to make commercial endorsements if the proceeds were placed in trust funds, to be tapped for training and living expenses. Thus Marathoner Frank Shorter could begin pitching for Canon cameras and Hilton Hotels, Kodak could sign up Moses, Decker and Marathoner Alberto Salazar, and everyone who was anyone in track and field could finally admit to having been on the payroll of somebody's shoe company since high school...
...News Service's Suzanne Davis, top priority was the creation "from paper clips to computers" of three workplaces: one at the Moscone Center; the second, for processing film, at a nearby photo lab; and the third wilder the chandeliers of the San Francisco ""Hilton's Imperial Ballroom. The hotel facility will contain much of the equipment of a large news bureau, plus that of our New York wireroom, including sophisticated transmission computers and phone systems. So far, Housing Coordinator Pamela Thompson has reserved 162 rooms in nine different hotels in the Bay Area; the Nation-section staff will...
...Sunday, Jackson went from criticizing U.S. policy to meddling in it. He met for four hours in his Panama Hilton hotel suite with Ruben Zamora and three other representatives of rebel groups that are fighting the U.S.-backed government of El Salvador. Jackson urged the rebel leaders to begin cease-fire talks with the newly elected Salvadoran President, Jose Napoleon Duarte. But one of the rebel delegates, Jose Mario Lopez, told reporters: "We can't be the only ones to lay down arms to start negotiations." Jackson agreed that any cease-fire must be "mutual so that negotiations...