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Then there were the women. The Russian girls won all ten gold medals, while the U.S. could not even get the minimum 30 points guaranteed for finishing third and fourth in each event. Ohio's Sandra Knott twice fouled her start in the 800-meter run and was disqualified. The same thing happened to California's Rosie Bonds in the 80-meter hurdles. The lone U.S. hurdler left was Indiana's Jo Ann Terry; she tripped over the first hurdle, fell flat on her face-and stayed there...
Spying the same opportunities, other U.S. chains are following Hilton abroad as fast as they can. The second biggest U.S. hotel chain after Hilton, Sheraton Corp., now has seven foreign hostelries; Hotel Corp. of America has five, and Knott Hotels three. But Hilton's biggest U.S. rival overseas is Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a Pan American World Airways subsidiary that has no hotels in the U.S. In the past six years, Intercontinental has added 13 hotels abroad, to bring its total to 19, expects to double that number within four years. Its hotels are generally smaller than Hilton...
Sheraton Corp. recently began an overseas push, this week swings open the doors of its 300-room Macuto-Sheraton near Caracas, Venezuela. Rising 258 ft. above Brussels' Renaissance Grand Place is the 250-room Brussels Westbury, which Knott Hotels will open next month. From Dublin to Tokyo, dozens of other de luxe hotels, most of them built under American guidance and often partly financed by U.S. capital, are under construction...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott. In this thriller, a murderer writes a letter-perfect crime and almost commits it, but justice beats out literature by a noose...
Other recipients were: Laurence H. Tribe, Alton B. Harris, Thomas F. Knott, Harry M. Lindquist, Paul D. D'Andrea, Bishop C. Hunt, Stephen E. Strom, Peter C. Ober, Robert R. Morris, and Saul A. Kripke...