Word: statlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods. Since building costs have skyrocketed (the Washington Statler Hilton built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub...
...Statler Hotel headquarters Thomas J. O'Connor conceded to Senator Leverett Saltonstall about midnight election night. For the 35-year-old mayor of Springfield who tried to unseat the man who surely now is recognized as a phenomenon in Massachusetts politics it was a disappointing end to a campaign that never quite got off the ground. The energy and the ability of the man were there, but the organization and planning and money that go into running for office was missing. O'Connor, though a loser, is a fresh face on the tired political scene in the Bay State...
More than 600,000 happy people filled the streets of Boston last night, as Jack Kennedy returned home for the last night of his Presidential campaign. The enormous crowd lined both sides of Kennedy's winding two-mile motorcade route from the Statler Hotel to Boston Garden...
Speaking at a literary luncheon at Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, Felix Frankfurter, oldest justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, warned the guests that most political diaries are scarcely worth the research to blow them to hell. Frankfurter, whose tape-recorded reminiscences were published last year, explained that few diarists deliberately lie, but they are all prey to "the fallibility of the human memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce...
Kennedy, who will make the Statler Hilton Hotel his headquarters, is scheduled to arrive at Logan Airport at 6 p.m. At 8 p.m. he will leave his hotel for a giant political rally at Boston Garden. More than 800,000 people are expected to turn out to watch the hour long motorcade...