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First, the mysterious C.I. met with De Lorean on July 11 at the Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif. By Sept. 4, the C.I. had arranged another meeting with De Lorean in a room at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. There, with the meeting filmed and recorded by nearby FBI agents, the two discussed, in the FBI affidavits' language, "the importation and distribution of heroin from Thailand and cocaine from South America as a means of generating large amounts of capital for the De Lorean Motor Co." De Lorean agreed to supply $1.8 million to begin...
Jordan, then president of the National Urban League, was severely wounded by rifle fire outside the Marriott Inn as he stepped out of an automobile driven by a white woman. FBI agents reportedly have evidence that Franklin had stayed in two nearby motels around the time of the shooting and later tried to sell a .30-06 rifle, the same type of weapon that fired the bullets wounding Jordan. The rifle has not yet been found. Last week's indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Indiana, charges Franklin with violating Jordan's civil rights...
Roommates, they shared a fondness for all contests, and if the Marriott Hotels that the N.F.L. teams frequent did not feature rumpus rooms buzzing with electronic whizbangers, DeBerg and Montana might have played checkers with match sticks on the tiles of the bathroom. "We could never quit," Joe laughs, "because somebody was always behind." Then he stops laughing. "It was unspoken, but we both knew. At practice, if one of us threw a pass that wobbled, the other would quack like a duck. We teased each other into staying friends, but we knew one eventually...
Souers and his family are now settled in a five-bedroom colonial house that cost $153,000 and has a 13.5% mortgage. Says he: "If Marriott had not offered the generous relocation benefits, I would not have moved. It would have meant either decreasing my quality of housing or decreasing my life-style...
...automaker's strategy has set off daydreaming by other corporate homeowners. Says Clifford Ehrlich, senior vice president of Marriott, which has an inventory of 76 unsold homes: "We could offer home buyers a free week in Santa Barbara at a Marriott Hotel." Executives at AMF, which even owns an employee's former home on Mount St. Helens, toyed with the idea of offering its Trac 14 catamarans or AMF-made snowblowers to anyone who would buy one of its 60 homes...