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...crowd of John F. Kerry supporters at the Boston Sheraton's Grand Ballroom last night there was never a moment of suspense...
Boston University, confronted with a 13% surplus of 496 new students, put up most of the spillover for two weeks at the Sheraton Boston. Eventually more conventional quarters were scrounged up, and B.U. swallowed a $200,000 tab. The University of California, Santa Cruz, counted some 200 freshmen above the normal entering class of 1,340. The school handled the crush in part with a freshly bulldozed trailer park, where some 30 students are currently making do with their mobile digs. The rest were shoehorned in everywhere from the gym, where ten to 20 students checked in every night...
Barely two hours later, Richard Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers, emerged from a suite at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., to announce tentative agreement on a new 40-month contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. Trumka called the deal "a giant step forward in this industry." If miners approve the contract, it will be the first time since 1964 that the U.M.W. has reached a new wage agreement without a strike...
Just three hours apart last Thursday morning at the cavernous Sheraton Washington Hotel, site of the international convention of the Jewish service organization B'nai B'rith, first Walter Mondale and then Ronald Reagan trooped to the podium to speak on the hottest issue to develop so far in the political campaign−not war or taxes or the deficit, but rather the proper relationship between politics and religion...
...invitation read, "Help put Fritz over the top." Balloons floated, booze flowed and the band played as hundreds of Mondale supporters jammed the Sheraton Washington Hotel last week to celebrate the beginning of the end of the Democratic race. Inquiring reporters were told to expect an early victory statement at 8 o'clock. At 9 p.m., Campaign Manager Robert Beckel assured the faithful: "We're on our way. It's only a matter of time...