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...Detroit, a Free Press reporter alerted federal agents that the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel was replacing the 10¢ locks on its men's room pay toilets with 25¢ locks. Hotel Manager Patrick Birmingham, flushed with embarrassment after word of his overpriced plumbing began to seep out, ordered the old, noninflationary devices reinstalled...
...license plates of their embarrassed clientele. U.S. aid and foreign investment in Thailand have declined markedly. In Bangkok's center, a ten-story office building completed more than a year ago has only four tenants, all on the tenth floor. Many internationally owned hotels, including the new Sheraton and the Dusit Thani, show 20% to 40% occupancy rates...
...runs to some 600 corporations or individuals in 64 nations. Ford Motor Co. is on it for setting up an assembly plant in Israel despite the fact that there is another Ford subsidiary in Egypt, and Moviemaker Otto Preminger is on it for having made Exodus. But Hilton and Sheraton manage hotels in Tel Aviv as well as Cairo, and such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, SAS and TWA service both sides. Bonwit Teller, the U.S. department store, is on some boycott lists, presumably for handling Israeli fashions...
...Hatter." Genovese approached Carlo Gambino, then only an ambitious Anastasia lieutenant, and convinced him that they would both be better off with Anastasia dead. Gambino quickly got the point. On Oct. 25, 1957, just as Anastasia had settled back comfortably in a barber chair in Manhattan's Park-Sheraton Hotel, his bodyguard conveniently excused himself. Two men walked in quickly, drew pistols and turned Anastasia and the shop into a blood-spattered nightmare. It was the last murder of a major Cosa Nostra leader...
After the Sheraton Plaza dance, after we had ushered the last of the celebrants onto his bus (where everyone was singing Harvard fight songs), and after we had scoured the ballroom for forgotten handbags and gloves (discovering mostly lost shoes instead), the head chauffeur hugged the executive secretary and then they both looked at all the rest of us and shook their heads warmly and sadly. It was like straight out of one of Chekhov's final curtains, all the faithful family retainers standing around chuckling knowingly over the foolishness of their masters...