Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking at the Sheraton Boston Hotel before addressing a retailers' convention. Ford said it was "unconscionable of some people" to hesitate to give Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi full support...
There are other overtones. Says Sheraton's Sig Front: "When somebody from West Virginia sits down at the dinner table with somebody in the same business from Denver and New York and they learn how much they have in common, I think that helps jell a nation. I really do." A convention can be a profession's jungle drums, an industry's family reunion, a young person's rite of passage into the adult world of commercial or professional comradeship. A convention can also be a fresh opportunity to display talent, knowledge, oratorical skill or sales records, to reaffirm...
Scanlon declined at first, but relented when Lloyd's of London agreed to insure its depredations. Three elephants at a time in the Waldorf ballroom have presented no problem, and three others are scheduled to be present at the Associated General Contractors convention in Bloomington, Minn., this winter. Sheraton-Waikiki Convention Service Manager Allan Woodrow recalls the day he was asked to accommodate a dead body for a gathering of morticians: it was sneaked in on a service elevator so none of the regular guests would become alarmed...
...towels from their washrooms while the group is there; the American Dairy Association wants hotel kitchens to follow the association's own dairy-intensive recipes; the National Association of Tobacco Distributors requests hotels to remove all their NO SMOKING signs for the duration. The Mothers of Twins asked the Sheraton-Boston for free baby-sitting services, but the hotel found that request too taxing. Chicago's Lurye says he has bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted...
...until check-out time. There is a growing tendency to pack convention schedules tightly, for reasons of both productivity and social control; organizers want to keep delegates present and working. not wandering off to see the sights on their own. Says Sig Front, a senior vice president at the Sheraton Corp.: "You're lucky if you have time to read a newspaper...