Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Escudero Aponte, used a Sterno-like fuel to torch new furniture stacked in the hotel's ground-floor ballroom, according to a complaint filed by the FBI in U.S. District Court...
...contract. The union, which represents 290 of the hotel's 450 employees, had threatened to strike at midnight on Dec. 31 if its demands were not met. On the afternoon of the last day of the year, 200 or so union members met in the Dupont Plaza's ballroom for more than an hour and voted to allow their leaders to call a strike. "The next we know," claimed Attorney Rudy Torruella, the hotel's negotiator, "is that immediately a fire broke out in the ballroom. In attempts to put out the fire by going through the kitchen door...
...since late December, the union had been airing spots on local radio stations urging people to stay away from the Dupont Plaza on New Year's Eve. Cadiz explained that the ads referred merely to a possible curtailment in services at the hotel. He also said that after the ballroom meeting ended, he remained confident that an agreement would be reached by midnight...
Most investigators agreed that the conflagration began in the ballroom under the mezzanine-level lobby and that subsequent blasts, perhaps caused when the fire hit kitchen gas lines, propelled the flames up into the casino. There were unconfirmed reports that three explosive devices had been found. And in the days preceding the tragedy, several small suspicious fires had broken...
...indistinguishable from California cuisine. Symbolic of the confusion is the representation in a new book, American Bistro, by Irena Chalmers and Friends (Contemporary; $35). Cited are Kansas City's high-style American Restaurant and the posh, pricey Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas. Even included is the Ballroom in Manhattan, known for its Spanish tapas. Everything, it seems, is in a name...