Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning up all over the U.S., mostly in search of real estate deals-the traditional haven for nervous money from abroad. Canadians. Iranians, Arabs (sometimes masquerading as Iranians), Germans and Japanese are leading bidders. Kenji Osawa. a Japanese investor, has bought six of the eight hotels managed by Sheraton in Hawaii; Lehndorff Management, the U.S. arm of a Hamburg investment management firm, estimates that foreigners will buy more than $2 billion worth of U.S. real estate this year, with West German investors among the leading purchasers...
...ride downtown. Excellent train and bus service (400). Flow Through: brisk, although no sidewalk checkin. Baggage carts. Single terminal traversed by moving sidewalk in 4 min. Longest walk: 1,800 ft. Baggage check-out and immigration: efficient. Customs: you could bring in an elephant. Hotels/Motels: fair. Two hotels, the Sheraton and Steigenberger, at airport. Amenities: everything imaginable. Three snack bars, one coffee shop. Twelve restaurants, best of which is Rôtisserie 5 Continents. One bar, open noon to 10 p.m. Shops of all kinds, including a supermarket and "Dr. Müller's Sex Shop." Two barbershops...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Ill., 800 students from Bogan High School gather in the ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged...
Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel will never be the same. Braille plates now appear next to elevator buttons. Wheelchair ramps curve down from entrance doors to parking lots. Telephones, in lowered booths, sprout oversize dials; buried inside them are enlarged amplifiers. Upstairs, 396 rooms come equipped with safety bars in the bathrooms; downstairs, the kitchen caters to Seeing-Eye dogs...
Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University Professor, told 80 members of the Cambridge Republican City Committee at the Sheraton Commander Hotel yesterday that a state juducial reform committee he is heading has recommended comprehensive consolidation of the Massachusetts court system...