Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers...
Every peace group in the area has made plans to picket President Johnson should he attend the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which is going on this week at the Sheraton Boston Hotel...
Texas Republican Senator John Tower, 41, is as much at home in a smoke-filled room as any other politician, but this time the predawn billows in his $42-a-day Sheraton-Dallas Hotel suite were accompanied by a nasty little fire. All but blinded by the smoke, Tower groped his way to the bathroom, wrapped a wet towel around his face and yelled for help. The hotel's soundproofing tabled that motion, so the 5-ft. 5½-in. parliamentarian resourcefully slammed the table right through the window and down into the street 26 floors below...
...Today, in the capital of Valletta, which was founded by the Knights of Malta to commemorate their victory over an invading Ottoman fleet, sailors find a paradise of bars, cabarets and girls. In its "fiveyear plan," the island has already built a gambling casino, and next year both a Sheraton and a Hilton hotel will rise over Malta's limestone walls and domed churches...
...roadside wait to be plucked by the passing traveler. The newest and best resort hotels are going up along a peerless, three-mile stretch of white beach on the southwestern side of the Kaanapali area, where the low-slung Royal Lahaina, the Royal Kaanapali and the towering Sheraton-Maui, built on a lava rock outcropping, together share a $1,800,000 golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones and blasted out of the slopes of Mount Puu Kukui. A $6,000,000 Hale Kaanapali Hilton condominium will open near by in February, to be followed by a 3,300-room...