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...vitriolic nature of the charges, the U.S. response was unusually mild. George Bush, the American Ambassador to the U.N., merely remarked at a press conference that "there is nothing in our system designed to exploit anyone." He also paid a call on Allende later at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...chilling postscript to the affair, it turned out that the would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, was stalking not only Governor George Wallace. Authorities learned soon after the shooting that in early April Bremer had registered at New York's Waldorf-Astoria at the same time Hubert Humphrey was supposed to have been there. Humphrey, as it happened, had canceled his trip. Last week a picture was released of Bremer in Ottawa later in April in a crowd outside Parliament, while inside, President Nixon was appearing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Bremer had stayed in the city...
...reason I feel humbly proud," she said at a luncheon in her honor at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week, "is that my immediate family were descendants of slaves. They were actually the persons who instilled faith, faith in God. They believed faith could remove any obstacle to success...
Across town, the American Newspaper Publishers Association gathered in annual session at the Waldorf-Astoria to hear purse-warming reports of record circulation (62.2 million) and ad revenue ($6.2 billion) for 1971. But journalism's Young Turks of all ages, assembled in a crowded hall on Manhattan's West Side, weighed not profit and loss but the less tangible standards of their craft. The tumultuous two-day A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention* was timed to coincide with the publishers' gathering, and the mood of confusion and malaise generated by the Lieblingers produced the desired contrast. The nonstop critique...
...Giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands. Polar bears in the Arctic. What each species shares with the others is an improving prospect for survival due to the efforts of a unique conservation organization. That group is the World Wildlife Fund, whose members gathered last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel to celebrate with deserved pride their tenth anniversary. From an obscure club of wealthy do-gooders, W.W.F. has grown into a United Nations of conservation, whose efforts on behalf of hundreds of endangered species are felt from Scotland to Sumatra...