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...week ago Cleveland was the site of a gathering of the clan- or rather, a gathering of two clans. The Sheraton-Cleveland is a large, expensive hotel. Its lobby is not much different from the lobbies of the other hotels in this county where rich people stay. This particular night, the Grand Ballroom was being rented by the Cuyahoga-Lake Division of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee. The purpose was a $250-a-plate dinner to raise money for the Republicans. The featured speaker was the Vice-President of the United States...
cussion of whether there should be a demonstration against the Vice-President at the Sheraton-Cleveland. The SDS-PL group put forward the idea that there should not only be a demonstration against Agnew, but also one against Mayor Carl Stokes. They claimed that Stokes was against the workers, even though he was black. They referred to the calling out of the National Guard to break the postal workers' strike. The planners of the conference wanted instead only to have a peaceful and orderly demonstration in front of the Sheraton against Agnew...
...there was a rally in front of the Sheraton-Cleveland, and members of the SMC-YSA group, as well as a GI and a labor union leader, addressed the crowd. After awhile, a group broke off from the main demonstration of about 2000 people, and marched over to the city hall. About 300 people took part in this, the demonstration that SDS had been planning. The crowd gathered on the front steps of the city hall- which was closed- and listened to several speeches. About a dozen police cars filled with helmeted policemen lined the streets near the city hall...
Every major U.S. hotel chain is expanding fast overseas. In more foreign places than ever before, travelers this year will be cooled by U.S.-style air conditioning, mellowed by martinis and sustained by steaks at hotels with such reassuringly familiar names as Hilton, Sheraton, Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn. "We reckon the opportunities abroad, particularly in Europe and Latin America, are as great for us as they were in America when we started in the '50s," says Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years...
...high cost of money in the U.S. have barely affected the overseas hotel surge. Both Hilton and Inter-Continental use local partners as sources of funds. Loew's followed that pattern in London by taking a lease on the Churchill, a luxurious hotel that opened last month. Sheraton is building a 1,200-room luxury hotel in Munich as part of an $865 million expansion program backed by the huge resources of its parent, International Telephone and Telegraph. Sheraton's 1,000-room hotel in Paris' Montparnasse, due to open in 1974, will be France...