Word: marriott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the rank-and-file celebrated at bars close to the Spacecraft Center, the nabobs of the space industry were rubbing elbows some 35 miles away at Houston's swank Marriott Motor Hotel. There, 25 Apollo contractors kicked in a cool $20,000 for a more sedate bash featuring pâté de fois gras canapés, massive ice carvings (the handsome, irrelevant figures of an antelope, a pumpkin and two dolphins) atop the serving tables, and an all-star guest list of 2,000, including Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the center, was there...
There were some other difficulties. Inaugural Chairman J. Willard Marriott pleaded with Washington hotelmen not to raise rates during the festivities; unknown to him, his own Marriott Motor Hotels had hiked the price of a double room by 20%, to $30 a night...
...George Romney. His 36th wedding anniversary fell on Sunday and his 60th birthday the following Saturday-but Romney didn't have time to make much fuss over them. Putting up in a grey-shingled cottage on the Lake Winnipesaukee estate of his friend Mormon Motel Magnate J. Willard Marriott, he spent four busy days testing the political waters in New Hampshire, well ahead of the state's primary on March 12, 1968. He found the waters at best lukewarm...
...Federal Government. CIA had not yet been publicly fingered as the association's moneybags, but the State Department was a subject of dark suspicion. That year, N.S.A. President-to-be-Philip Sherburne, a graduate of the University of Oregon, was invited to a room at Arlington's Marriott Motor Hotel. Two CIA men met him for what had become an annual routine for top N.S.A. officials: they told him that he would have access to important facts about the organization if he would sign the security pledge. He agreed. First, he learned that he had been judged "witty...
...Idle Chatter. Although Romney hustled out of the Waldorf without talking to reporters, Marriott announced candidly: "All of us think he is going to be a candidate. We think Romney has a better chance than anyone else." That is not just idle chatter, for Romney's operatives have already taken several seven-league steps along the path to prepare the way for his entry as a fullblown presidential candidate...