Word: sheraton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a problem in the Independence Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. There are over 1400 high-school students, participants in the Harvard Model United Nations [HMUN], watching Ambassador-at-large Elliot Richardson '41 try to deliver a keynote address on the convention's first night. Something is wrong and you can tell it. The people on the dais -- Harvard students who organize the model UN -- are shifting uncomfortably in their chairs. The audience isn't doing much better. Richardson sways and launches into a five-minute barrage of questions -- "What would you like...
Charles Norchi '79, "Chuck" to his friends and newly-elected president of the International Relations Council (IRC), is walking down the hall of the third floor of the Sheraton...
Thomas Hewitt, general manager of the Sheraton, seemed at ease earlier in the day. Any troubles with the students who are living in your hotel so far? "We'll take any good piece of business -- whether they're students or not," Hewitt says, "and these are nice kids, very serious-minded. They run around and make some noise and have a little more energy than I do but they're nice kids -- I hope my son grows up like them...
...Boston by the widest margin in any election in the history of this city," said a triumphant Mayor Kevin H. White when he claimed victory for his forces at 10:05 p.m. in Sheraton Boston Hotel...
...Brooke is in good company. There are 1500 people in the Sheraton-Boston ballroom for the annual awards dinner of the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Someone has screwed up in the scheduling. Brooke can only stay to deliver a five minute address...