Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plush motor hotels. Hotel occupancy rates have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year 37% of all downtown hotel business came from conventions. In medium-sized cities that no longer attract the conventioneers, such as Buffalo and Hartford, hotels are having a hard time surviving...
...domestic revenues fell 10.6% and profits by nearly a half, offsetting profits from abroad. The recently opened New York Hilton (2,153 rooms) in Rockefeller Center offers what new U.S. hotels need nowadays if they hope to succeed: free parking to compete with the motels, expensive specialty restaurants to attract the high-livers, and lots of room for conventions to meet. It may be the last of its kind. "With perhaps an exception here and there," says Conrad Hilton, "we are not going to build any more large hotels in this country, and there are no more hotels...
...Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities as Rome, London or Paris, they are apt to seem a little off-key and alien...
...brokers for plays or ball games; the Bank of Indiana in Gary books plane and hotel reservations anywhere in the world for its customers, has outdoor "walkup windows" to serve them. New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. has started an offbeat radio and TV advertising campaign to attract more customers, is offering the fashion-conscious checkbooks whose covers come in "currency green," "ingot gold," "bond beige" or simulated cobra and leopard...
Both the internship plan and the summer school had their start as adjuncts of Harvard's Master of Arts in Teaching program. The purpose of the M.A.T. program is to attract good students from liberal arts colleges, and in a year of study, to give them further work in their own subject, under the FAS, and professional training in methods of instruction and the role of the schools, under the Faculty of Education...