Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santiago's modern Hotel Carrera has 18 unwilling guests. For Dimitri Alexandrovitch Zhukov, first & only Soviet Ambassador to Chile, the Carrera is where he came in; he stayed there when he arrived in April 1946. Now that Chile has broken with the U.S.S.R., Zhukov and his staff are ready to go home (TIME, Nov. 3). Every day Embassy First Secretary Nicolai Voronin trots a block to the Foreign Office to get permission to leave. Chile's answer: "All arrangements for leaving Moscow by the entire Chilean group must first be completed...
...Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel installed television screens in 40 of its best rooms. Next week the service was promised to guests-for an extra...
...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...Vision. When Nellie opened her place in 1909 there was not much at Palm Springs but a run-down hotel, eleven dilapidated houses and a handful of settlers...
...visiting athletic teams," Dailey commented. Dartmouth's Green Key Society, like Princeton's Orange Key and other similar Ivy League organizations, meets football teams, for instance, at the station Friday afternoon. A representative of the society sticks with the team members throughout their stay. He takes them to their hotel, answers questions, and secures post-game entertainment for them, generally, in the form of free dance tickets...