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...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...
...become a spoilsport, he conceded: "I guess you'd have to say I have." McGovern took the California primary with 43.46% of the vote-thus winning all 271 delegates -while Humphrey ran second with 38.55%. When the 150-member Democratic Credentials Committee assembled in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to consider the challenge, the Humphrey delegates banded together with Wallace and Muskie forces in a stop-McGovern coalition that upheld the challenge by a vote...
...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...
...president since last October of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.; of an apparent heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. Amiable but harddriving, Ireland directed the Alleghany Corp.'s long and complicated proxy battles of the '50s. In 1968, he joined ITT, where he oversaw the operation of Avis, Sheraton hotels and several of the conglomerate's other subsidiaries. Ireland professed to know little about broadcasting, but CBS hired him last year to bring fresh talent to the network's top echelon in a period of sagging revenues...
Indeed, few corporations dominate their industries the way that Holiday Inns dominates the fast-growing business of lodging. Its success has lured a host of imitators into the motor-inn field: Howard Johnson's, ITT Sheraton, Marriott. Despite this competition, Holiday Inns has more than four times as many rooms as its closest rival in the hotel or motel field, Ramada Inns (see chart, page 81). Right now Wilson's company counts 208,939 rooms, with a total of more than 300,000 double beds...