Word: inns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August convention; yet contributions were becoming scarce. Johnson, Hall and other Romney advisers decided that withdrawal was the only feasible course; no recovery seemed possible in Wisconsin, Nebraska or Oregon. They relayed their prognosis to the candidate in a late-night meeting at Boston's Ramada Inn. Romney slept on it, and by the time he finished breakfast next morning his mind was made up to quit...
...midst of Washington's worried deliberations over Viet Nam and Korea last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk took time out to join Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler on a quiet but urgent mission to Little Rock, Ark. There, in The Coachman's Inn, the two Cabinet members spent a precious two hours and ten minutes with Representative Wilbur Mills in yet another effort to enlist his support for the President's tax bill. Mills, characteristically, was unimpressed...
...savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says Tishman, "we take an institution's project and handle it like our own." Among other things, that means spotting pitfalls that can range from...
...Cloister Inn had also been discussing a boycott of Bicker until its graduate board told club members to stop stirring up trouble. After the remonstrance, Cloister's president Valery H. Taylor took a poll in which members split nearly in half on whether or not to Bicker...
...another new hotel on Park Place for Howard Hughes, 61, the world's most indefatigable Monopoly player. Without emerging from his $250-a-day cave on the ninth floor of Las Vegas' Desert Inn, the phantom billionaire has concluded negotiations to take over the 650-room Frontier Hotel for a total of $9,000,000. Hughes's holdings in and around Las Vegas are now worth over $100 million, include the Desert Inn, Sands Hotel, Alamo Airways, 30,000 acres of land and the city airport...