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...member A.F.L.-C.I.O. general board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party...
...that he had understated his annual income by $750; he did not want his wife to know about his extra pocket money. In Dellview, N.C., a census taker found that the town's population had decreased by three; the 1960 count: four. At Detroit's Statler Hilton Hotel, the census taker discovered that the reason that many a guest failed to answer up in the poll of transients was that 400 conventioneers in the hotel were deaf-mutes...
...Nixon did it again. At a big Washington Christmas party given by the Nixons, New York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, a surprise guest, turned up jauntily, mingled with the high-ranking guests, and started tongues wagging. Afterward, Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were widely noted guests at dinner in the Statler Hilton Hotel, with the Nixons and Attorney General Bill Rogers and his wife. And on Saturday, despite chilling temperatures, Dewey and Nixon played golf together at Burning Tree...
...beginning, Miraglia told police, he always felt that he would spend only what he later could repay. "But I got in so deep I couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room...
...challenge of the common market in Europe will be the topic of interest at the 31st Boston Conference on Distribution to be held October 19-20 at the Statler-Hilton...