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Racing Motors. Spivak still runs Meet the Press from a converted apartment in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, one flight up from the living quarters he shares with Charlotte, his wife of 48 years; Son Jonathan is a Wall Street Journal reporter. The cluttered working space houses file cases in the bathtub, tapes of more than 1,200 MTP broadcasts, an avalanche of news clippings and a staff of six who labor under the pressures of weekly deadlines and Spivak's indefatigable dedication to the program. "He wakes up with his motors racing," says Spivak...
After the rally the McGovern entourage will proceed to the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel where a fund-raising luncheon is scheduled to begin shortly after 1 p.m.. From lunch the nominee will go to taping sessions with the major local television stations, and then to private meetings with various supporters...
...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...