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Signs in the America Ballroom of the Westin Hotel said it all: "Charleston Cheers for JPK," "Allston Loves JPK," "Newton Wishes They Could Vote For Joe Kennedy...
Almost 90 percent of the Charles Hotel, 20 percent of the Ritz-Carlton and 15 percent of the Westin Hotel were taken up last night by Harvard revelers, hotel officials said. "Everyone's dressed in tuxes, and everyone's wearing crimson ties," said Martha W. Sullivan, public relations director for the Charles Hotel. "The celebration is keeping the Charles Hotel, as well as other hotels in Boston and Cambridge, very busy," she said...
...quality. Says Terry Maltbie, secretary-treasurer of the Communications Workers union local in Landover, Md.: "Telephone operators used to be a voice with a smile, but automation has depersonalized their jobs." Courtesy and carefulness remain important but elusive factors in many service-industry tasks. Notes Columbia University Professor Alan Westin, an authority on office automation: "In these types of jobs, companies who count numbers too closely will lose their edge...
There is the further question of whether testers cast their nets too broadly, penalizing employees for off-the-job indulgences that have no bearing on their job performance. Urinalysis, for instance, can indicate drug use a week or more after it has taken place. Columbia University Professor Alan Westin says that how people spend their time away from work is a private matter: "Many generations of American workers would get roaring drunk on Saturday night, then show up for work a little hung over on Monday morning, and we led the world in production." Westin believes tests should measure...
...lines of stretch limousines and crowds of celebrity gawkers at Los Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated...