Word: waldorf
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...started conventionally enough with an address by Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Then the protesters arrived. Longhaired, mustachioed and some 30 strong, they stormed the speaker's rostrum at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, bearing banners and shouting insults at the U.S. museum establishment. They called themselves the New York Artists Strike Against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War. Two of their members, who were scheduled to address the delegates later that morning, demanded to be heard right then and there. After 20 minutes of shouting, the meeting was adjourned and nobody was heard. That evening...
Gnomon will be one of three copying services along a 150-yard section of the street. The other two are Copy Cat Educational Services, four doors away in J. August's clothing store, and Alice Darling Secretarial Service, near Waldorf Cafeteria...
...were arrested in the Waldorf Cafeteria at 6:15 a.m. yesterday when five police vehicles-three cars, one station wagon, and one paddy wagon-carrying 13 policemen responded to a complaint by the Waldorf's manager...
Bruce Bernstein, a Tufts student who witnessed the incident, said that the Waldorf's manager had refused to serve a young black man whom he claimed would not be able to pay the bill...
...they cleared the Square, police burst into Massachusetts Avenue businesses, clubbing demonstrators and clientele. Six police entered the Waldorf Cafeteria in pursuit of rioters, beat the rioters to the floor, and dragged them back to the sidewalk. Waldorf customers threw chairs at the police and refused to leave the restaurant. Some administered first aid to two injured demonstrators...