Word: marriott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aaaa-eeyaa-eeyaa-eeoo! The nostalgic jungle roar echoed from a Marriott hotel in steamy nether Los Angeles last week as four of 15 former screen Tarzans and three of 19 ex-Janes got together to celebrate the centenary of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth. The lung-busting bellow was uttered by beefy Johnny Weissmuller, now 71 and 250 lbs., who starred in twelve Tarzan movies opposite four Janes; he and Tarzan No. 13, Jock Mahoney, 56, got together to heft a shapely Rent-A-Jane in a rippling display of one-apemanship. How far did Tarzan and Jane...
...firms on the feasibility of Egyptian projects, and 3) the creation of "senior working groups" of Egyptian and U.S. technocrats to survey periodically such development needs as the re-equipping of the Suez Canal. No sooner had the agreements been reached than they began to pay off. Representatives of Marriott Corp. arrived to plan a 700-room hotel that Marriott will operate for the Egyptians, and this week Charles J. Pilliod Jr., chairman of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., is scheduled to discuss a tire plant...
...would it hurt the country, John," the president quips, "to have the FBI so terribly damaged?" But though the president can be subtly satirical, he can laugh with the groundlings, too. "Well, they are really fine Americans, you know," he remarks--to general hilarity--of the owners of the Marriott Hotel chain. "And gee whiz, they don't drink themselves, but they make a lot out of selling...
...most fascinating part of Don Nixon's testimony involved not Mitchell but Richard Nixon. Although he is now a vice president of the Marriott Corp., the hotel and restaurant chain founded by J. Willard Marriott, friend and financial backer of the President, Don Nixon has a history of stumbling into embarrassing business deals. During his rambling, flustered performance in court, he revealed just how carefully his brother has kept him at arm's length from the White House. Said he: "John Mitchell is a man that I was delegated-that designated that I should talk to him about...
...motel saying, "Oh, I love my work. Oh, I'm happy, I'm very happy with my work. These young girls, they're not as conscientious as I am. Once, though, at two in the morning"--let's say she worked for Holiday Inn--"I'd answer it, 'Marriott Inn.'" And I would say, "Why did you do that?" She'd say, "I don't know what made me do it. Just for a lark, I guess. Want to make the night more exciting. You know what I'd like to do some day? They think we're nothing...