Word: hiltons
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Between 500 and 550 students are expected to move into hotels such as the Hyatt, the Hilton and Howard Johnson's in Kenmore Square, like they did last year, said Kevin R. Carleton, Public Relations director at the school...
...year-old firm announced that Chairman Richard Ferris, 50, had resigned and would be replaced by Frank Olson, 54, who is currently head of the company's Hertz rental-car subsidiary. At the same time, for-sale signs were tacked onto Hertz as well as the Westin and Hilton International hotel chains, whose 149 hostelries constituted the third branch of the firm. Management also said it would seriously consider demands by the pilots for employee ownership. Finally, Olson recommended that the company's name, which had been changed only six weeks ago from UAL to Allegis (a combination...
...later, Vice President George Bush, echoing the themes stressed by the President, was roundly booed by an audience gathered at the Washington Hilton for the third International Conference on AIDS. In an aside that was picked up on an open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested...
...Maxwell called it quits, long-suffering Allegis -- owner of United Air Lines, Hertz, and the Westin Hotels and Hilton International chains -- announced a ploy much like Harcourt's. The Allegis directors authorized a cash payment of $60 a share, worth some $3.5 billion. The move came two days after the New York City-based investment firm of Coniston Partners declared that it owned 13% of Allegis' shares and wanted to gain control of the 16- member board...
They began lining up outside the New York Hilton's Sutton Ballroom at 5:30 in ^ the afternoon; by the time the doors opened at 6:45, recalls Physicist Randy Simon, a member of TRW's Space and Technology Group, "it was a little bit frightening. There was a surge forward, and I was in front. I walked into the room, but it wasn't under my own power." Recalls Stanford Physicist William Little: "I've never seen anything like it. Physicists are a fairly quiet lot, so to see them elbowing and fighting each other to get into...