Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston mayor's race was "the toughest political battle I have ever seen," Mayor Kevin White said in his victory speech late last night to an enthusiastic crowd of about 2000 in the Sheraton's Grand Ballroom...
Thirty minutes later, only the television people remained in the ballroom. The "best" of Election Night was "yet to be"--upstairs over bottles at the Boston Sheraton...
WITH RETURNS IN for most of Boston's voting precincts, the scene on election night at State Senator Joseph Timilty's campaign headquarters was festive. At the Boston Sheraton, however, where incumbent Mayor Kevin White and his supporters watched the same returns, the atmosphere was more subdued. Ordinarily these contrasting moods would suggest that Senator Timilty had emerged victorious in this preliminary contest and would pose a threat to the incumbent mayor in the November 4 final election. But even Timilty's assertion that his returns represented "a victory for the people" could not hide the actual results: in what...
...give the event a patriotic motif, great swatches of red, white and blue carpeting were laid over the tiled floor in the huge basement of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Gleaming like a Cartier jewel, a scale model of a General Dynamics F-16 jet fighter slowly revolved on a glass-enclosed turntable; beneath its wings rested such accessories as Walleye and Sidewinder missiles, tubular pods of radar equipment and bomb clusters...
Hall, who came to Harvard from a position as a vice president of ITT-Sheraton in 1971, is a man obsessed with innovation and change. One of his latest schemes, unveiled this summer, involved a palm-scanning machine designed to reduce the number of non-paying persons eating in Harvard dining halls. The machine was relatively simple. The finger length, curvature and skin translucency of each student would be recorded on the magnetic strip on the back of his or her bursar's card. Then each dining hall would be equipped with a slotted scanner that would read the magnetic...