mnienl i' cocktai lowntowi ve dinnei ii until j >• And a 9th Ceit itlale )se). Thei >lunts ani 30LID WOOD FURNITURE* Crutches for weapons? Freshmen Dave Jefferson (left) and Ed Wil son (right) practice maneuvers for Fish Drill Team using crutches instead of weapons. They belong to Wilson due to a hurt knee. The crutches may seem lighter, but their length probably makes them more awkward than the weapons usually used by the Fish Drill Team. Adviser Ed Santiago looks on as the two freshmen practice. Battalion photo by Jo Ella Dixon ity wi! nt Associil I next spri who atteM ig in Deni: if 12 Te conferei th TexasSt ;peakers» , Joe Old e State! r student lies sucl ‘lationsli ts. Texas* :>r of dele; he comet Novemk ing. ibly passe ; the conferenn n Houstm to support grams, lowed TS) on Against also votet ■ation of r Protect* Giant corporation evolved from nickel root beer stand ;r of die | harvest the decliit' conditions, Ixtension sday. •vesting beans pro? Plains are): itinued central an? ts harvest ntral ans also ast and United Press International It was 1927, the year Charles A. Lindbergh made his historic nonstop solo flight across the Atlan tic from New York to Paris. That was also the year one J. Willard Marriott opened a nine-seat nickel root beer stand in Washing ton, D C. Marriott s $2,500 invest ment attracted far less publicity. Although the opening went virtually unnoticed, Marriott was to goon to make history after a fashion. For from that tiny stand evolved the Marriott Corp., currently the na tions most diversified lodging, food service, and leisure services com pany. Each clay more than 60,000 Mar riott employes serve the needs of about one million travelers and other guests in 39 U.S. states and 18 foreign countries. Properties include 31 hotels, five resorts, and 14 franchised inns in the United States and overseas; 63 airline catering kitchens; more than 4(H) public restaurants; 200 business and institutional focxl service man agement contracts; condominiums; two major theme parks (Great America) and three cruise ships (Sun lanes). No one recorded Marriott’s gross during his first year selling root beer. But Marriott Corp. reported a combined total of more than $1 bil lion in sides for fiscal 1976. Marriott s first venture into the hotel business came in Arlington, Va., with the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel in 1957. It was billed as the first full-service motor hotel in the U.S. mtinuei many ee cattle '' jng condit* g also is western 6 Now he is board chairman of the parent Marriott Corp., whose hotel division operates or oversees 50 hotels and inns, with nearly 19,500 1(, oms, in 45 cities from coast to coast and in Acapulco, Mexico; Euzco, Peru; Amsterdam, Holland; farn and Barbados. The company observed its golden anniversary by opening its 50th hos telry, the Marina del Rey Marriott Inn near the Los Angeles airport, in early October. “We must be doing something right,” said James E. Durbin, presi dent of the Marriott Hotels Divi sion. “Marriott enjoys the highest occupancy rate of the top hotel chains—more than 80 percent com pared with the industry average of 62 percent. And we also have three times as many 1977 Mobil Travel Guides four-star hotels and resorts and more AAA five-diamonds than any other hotel group.” Durbin said he envisaged “con siderable continued growth” of tourism in the next quarter of the century. “As job functions become more programmed with more people find ing the novelty and challenge miss ing in their work-a-day lives, people will turn in increasing numbers to travel and leisure-time activities to escape boredom,” he said. Durbin said he expected an in crease in young travelers “as the generation of the more affluent, more educated young adults who have been flying from infancy, be come of age and make their own travel decisions. “We also see an increase of golden-age citizens venturing forth in greater numbers, not only be cause of scientific advances which have prolonged their active life but because more people were con cerned with making those golden years worthwhile. Durbin said Marriott had “am bitious expansion” plans for the fu ture in the United States and abroad, particularly in South and Central America, Mexico, and the Middle East. He said hotels are being built or planned for Arequipa and Lima, Pern; Caneun, Mexico; Tehran, Egypt; Kuwait. 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