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...Richard wanted to insure that Don stayed out of the headlines, especially once he became president. He arranged a job for his younger brother at the Marriott Corporation, where Don's last name worked such magic that one competitor grumbled, "I don't know if he's got 'vice president' or 'brother' on his business card...
Even the large hotel chains are checking into the small-hotel business. Hyatt Hotels' 225-room Park Hyatt will open on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" next fall, replete with a tea salon and, in place of the conventional convention hall, a velvet-paneled library. Marriott has franchised the 228-room Galvez in Galveston, Texas, a once splendid Spanish-style hotel that was bought in 1978 by Houston Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley and a partner for $1.75 million. After a $10 million restoration, the Galvez is poised to reclaim its title as "Queen of the Gulf...
...toyed with their Filet de Sole au Yalu River. They had survived bowls of kimchi, the mouth-searing concoction of pickled cabbage, hot peppers and garlic that is Korea's national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades ago when the United Nations forces were trying to hold the Pusan...
About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
...watched TV and, with a nurse's assistance, even stood briefly. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was making a slow but steady recovery from gunshot wounds that felled him in the parking lot of the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Ind. But the police and FBI were making little progress last week in tracking down the would-be killer of the civil rights leader...