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...tables stretched from the 2.3-acre Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles to two banquet halls in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel for the biggest coast-to-coast dinner in U.S. history. In 43 states, more than 100,000 Republicans turned out for 83 fund-raising "dinners with Ike," at $24 to $100 a plate, to muster up $5,000,000 for the G.O.P. campaign treasury. All got the same no-frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu...
...United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald strode into the elevator of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel one day last week and growled: "I can tell you one man who isn't going to be President...
Before last week's final negotiation session broke up at Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel, steel industry pressagents handed out releases that left no doubt that the meeting was going to be another flop: "Anxious as they are to see an end to this devastating strike which the union has forced upon the country . . . the eleven steel companies must continue to resist surrender [to] an agreement which will promote inflation, produce rising production costs and perpetuate wasteful, inefficient practices...
...steel management and labor to reach agreement, but the halfhearted, stop-and-go manner in which they had negotiated. Last week after urgent personal requests from the President that they get down to serious negotiating, labor and management met over a coffee table in Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel. The session followed the same pattern of dull do-nothing that had characterized all the previous negotiations. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough pointed to the management's offer of a "15? wage package," stuck by his demands for revision in union work rules (TIME, Oct. 12). United Steelworkers Union...
Almost 1,600 physicians from all over the U.S. gathered in Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel last week, listened to highly technical papers on such arcane subjects as the treatment of collagen diseases and new analogues of adrenocortical steroids. What made the gathering noteworthy was the identity of the sponsoring organization: the all-Negro National Medical Association. Founded in 1895 and long dedicated to breaking down social and professional prejudice and discrimination against Negro physicians, the N.M.A. could count its battle largely won. The next phase: improving its members' technical competence through a capsulized postgraduate course...