Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insane act: shooting a President to win the affections of a movie star. The legal definition of madness, however, is a bit more exacting (see LAW). Last week lawyers for John Hinckley, 26, the man who wounded President Reagan and three others on March 30 outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, declared in a court brief that they will argue Hinckley's innocence by reason of insanity. In a case where the facts of the crime are so starkly clear-the defense admits to the shooting-an insanity plea may be Hinckley's only chance for acquittal...
Last week's sessions did not answer many of Rosenthal's questions, and even raised some new ones. For example, Government documents record at least one exchange in which a representative of Kuwait, whose holdings include Baltimore's Hilton Hotel, told U.S. officials that his country might stop pumping oil if the level of Kuwait's investments were revealed...
...some hotel owners are turning to computerized electronic locks to foil burglars. The most popular system is made by Uniqey International of Santa Ana, Calif., and is used in 20 European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door...
While reservations at hotels and vacation resorts have not dropped sharply in all cities, isolated floods of cancellations are beginning to develop. In New Orleans, no-shows at the New Orleans Hilton & Towers are running at 50% for the week...
Instead of boarding the flight home, Runkle, using the name M. Clark, paid $204 in cash for a one-way fare to Chicago. Still using her assumed name, she registered at the O'Hare Airport Hilton Hotel and paid cash for her room. She browsed the lobby later that night-and was never seen alive again...