Word: sheratons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these circumstances, the bitterest and most extreme of the fedayeen have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice-president for Administration, said last week that a major obstacle involved getting approval from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which is contributing interest subsidy to the $1 million reconstruction. Hall, former director of operations for ITT. Sheraton Corporation, said the renovation was "my toughest problem in 13 years of dealing with construction projects" because of the pressing time schedule...
Died. George B. Henderson, 78, co-founder in 1939 of the Sheraton hotel chain; in Boston. After World War I, Henderson teamed up with his brother Ernest in a family brokerage firm in Boston. With Ernest's former Harvard roommate, Robert Moore, the brothers began acquiring New England real estate during the early '30s, and in 1937 they bought their first hotel. Two years later they acquired the Boston Sheraton, named after the 18th century English furniture designer; because the hotel's electric rooftop sign was so expensive to remove they adopted the Sheraton name that...
...today's highly technical age, it is no surprise that computers are being programmed to play chess. Last week the Third Annual U.S. Computer Chess Championship was held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, and a crowd of 300 watched as eight computers competed for first place...
...rooms at the Doral. With success has come additional need: he holds 299 rooms at eight other hotels as well. Hubert Humphrey (450 rooms) will be at the Carillon, Edmund Muskie (470 rooms) at the towering Americana in Bal Harbour. George Wallace will be off at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors and Dupont Plaza in Miami; he has 150 units, one equipped with a tilt table for his physical therapy. Shirley Chisholm (50 rooms) and Wilbur Mills (200 rooms) are both at the Deauville...