Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their cause will not be helped by Green Berets, which purports to tell in fictional form "the previously untold stories of a group of true-life heroes." Its author, a Sheraton Hotel executive who had previously written a book about gunrunning in the Caribbean, was allowed to take the Special Forces guerrilla warfare course at Fort Bragg and then went to South Viet Nam as an accredited correspondent. He was unusually privileged, and saw the war at uncommonly close quarters. Though newsmen are noncombatants, Moore carried a Special Forces M-16 automatic rifle, dressed in regulation jungle fatigues, fought...
...quarrel with our actions to preserve peace than to curse us through eternity for inaction that might lose both our peace and our freedom." Cattiness & Caterwauling. Of course, there was plenty of quarreling going on about Administration policy. In a "national teach-in" held in Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel ballroom and beamed to dozens of U.S. college campuses via radio and educational television channels, academicians of varying qualifications arose to attack or defend the U.S. commitment in Viet...
...attending the afternoon session of the teach-in at the Sheraton Park Hotel greeted the announcement of Bandy's absence with hisses, boos, and laughter. This show of audience response was about the last such demonstration...
Last week President Johnson played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
...mayor was in Washington for a television interview, the first time he had ever been north of North Carolina, and he was uncertain about where to go at that time of the night. He and Pilcher left their room in the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, went out onto the street and soon ran into a Negro named James ("Race Horse") Edwards, a con man with a 14-page police record, much of it for the Murphy game...