Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticized by De Gaulle's government for its plans to set up a major canning operation in the south of France. Presumably, Libby will now be welcome. In Hawaii, Tokyo's Kokusai Kogyo Co. is awaiting only Japanese government approval before handing over $8.7 million to buy Sheraton's luxurious Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Waikiki. London's Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Ltd. is bidding $17.5 million to take control of St. Louis' American Zinc, Lead & Smelting...
Among those on hand in Louisville's Sheraton Hotel were 16 top cops from North Carolina, ten from South Carolina, twelve from Alabama, nine from Texas, two from Tennessee, 16 from Florida, twelve from Virginia, 20 from Kentucky, and four from Arkansas. (Mississippi and Louisiana were notably absent.) They were attending a conference on "police responsibility in race tension and conflict," sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and financed by the Ford Foundation. A main aim was to give the officers a side of the segregation story that they do not often hear back home. They...
...Sheraton Corp. recently began an overseas push, this week swings open the doors of its 300-room Macuto-Sheraton near Caracas, Venezuela. Rising 258 ft. above Brussels' Renaissance Grand Place is the 250-room Brussels Westbury, which Knott Hotels will open next month. From Dublin to Tokyo, dozens of other de luxe hotels, most of them built under American guidance and often partly financed by U.S. capital, are under construction...
...most hotelmen are convinced that Federal Tax Chief Mortimer Caplin's crackdown on expense accounts will cut the average hotel bill still more. "If the IRS rules remain as stringent as they are now, it'll murder us roomwise," worries Manager Ed Crowley of Los Angeles' Sheraton-West. "Guests who usually bring their wives or stay an extra day or two themselves just aren't doing it anymore...
...presidential motorcade, which included representatives of the Boston press and a special press bus for national correspondents, wound its way through downtown Boston to the Sheraton Plaza Hotel on Huntington Ave., where Kennedy spent the night in the Presidential suite. Enthusiastic crowds greeted him along the route...