Word: sheraton
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...their own supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even fed the peasants' livestock and rebuilt their pens. They have built schools and paved over the long-unused Saigon-Hué railroad to make the only road in the Danang area that is passable during the monsoons. Result: for the first...
...Cambridge to interview second and third year law students interested in positions with Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander, a New York law firm, Nixon spent the last two days in a bloc of six rooms at the Sheraton Commander. More than 80 students applied to spend 20 minutes with the man who was almost President...
...Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. African financial chiefs approached the IMF with requests for more support. Asian delegates asked the U.S. Government to underwrite the proposed Asian development bank. Among the 2,000 moneymen from 103 nations who crowded into the Sheraton Park Hotel, such bankers as the U.S.'s David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa, Britain's Viscount Harcourt and Italy's Ettore Lolli swapped shop talk and negotiated private deals...
Manry was welcomed by Ohio Senator Frank Lausche and Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher. The mayor handed him the key to the city and hailed his "courage and faith." Fifteen hundred people crowded into the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel for a luncheon in his honor. Said Plain Dealer Publisher Tom Vail: "Here is a man who is not afraid to back up his dreams with action...
Giant scrapers last week clawed at a Los Angeles hilltop where a 500-room Sheraton hotel will soon rise. Half a world away, turbaned Moslems naked to the waist poured concrete foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan...