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What resulted was sheer anarchy. For the first general session of the four-day conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller...
Architect Donald Janinski of Hampton Falls, N.H., decided that barn siding and beams were just what was needed to give a colonial look to half a dozen new Sheraton motels in New England. At first, Janinski found that farmers were anxious to be rid of the rundown structures, and he was able to buy the wood for the cost of pulling down the barn ($200 to $400). "But the farmer gets sophisticated pretty fast in New Hampshire and Vermont," says Janinski, "and today the weathered timber costs up to three times as much as new lumber...
...devised such cost savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says Tishman, "we take an institution's project and handle it like our own." Among other things, that means spotting pitfalls that...
...Pato Chifa (marinated duckling in soy sauce with date, rice and walnut dressing) even aboard domestic flights. Reinforcing its $2,000,000-a-year take-the-wife-along campaign, United has been spending its own money to promote the availability of reduced rates for couples at the Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains and the Hertz and Avis rent-a-car companies...
...both the Harvard faculty member and Rice point out, White is enormously good-natured. Tuesday night, after he had delivered his victory speech to the packed Sheraton-Plaza ballroom, a cordon of Boston police tried to move White and his family through the mob and to an elevator taking him to his private suite. The chain of police finally pushed and shoved through the cheering crowd of celebrators and got the official party into the elevator. The crowd began to move away from the elevator when suddenly the elevator door opened and the Boston police--red-faced--moved...