Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheaper Bourbon. The secret of good innkeeping is to save money without letting the guests realize that any scrimping is going on-and Hilton is a past master at the art. Hilton has found that grass-cloth wall covering eliminates repainting and keeps looking new after years of service, now imports large quantities of it from Hong Kong for his hotels. The wall-to-wall plush carpets on the floors of Hilton hotels actually save money because they make it unnecessary to finish the floor underneath, and the use of Urethane instead of foam rubber in mattresses is cheaper...
...dining rooms a battery of Hilton tasters has effected a saving with the discovery-so they say-that Manhattans are much better when made with the cheapest bourbon and that Icelandic lobster is better and cheaper than jumbo shrimp in many seafood dishes. Each of the five restaurants in the New York Hilton has a culinary theme-Spanish, French, Old New Orleans, etc.-but all the food is cooked in one mammoth kitchen. Hilton also saves money by purchasing its turkeys only once a year and freezing them, by having its French fries blanched with oil before they leave Idaho...
...year-old Simpson goes sauntering, it is likely to turn into a bracing hike. He has done 37 miles at a stretch, would like to try a Kennedy 50. He is 5 ft. 7½ in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., likes a martini before dinner and a nightcap of bourbon and water. He comes to his post with some knowledge of American girls, since in 1938 he married one, Mary McEldowney, onetime associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Simpsons have two married daughters just into their 20s and a son, Rupert, 11. Simpson believes adamantly...
...with enough gauges and gadgets to make it look like Faith 7). In the evening, he was off again to address R.O.T.C. students at nearby Arizona State University, gave them a talk about freedom and the necessity of manned aircraft in the space age, went home again to sip bourbon and water and fiddle with his ham rig. Soon he was talking up his pet Senate bills to two hams in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. When a house guest went off to bed at 2 a.m., Barry and his son Mike, 23, were fiddling with a new kind...
Convulsive Barking. Louis Auguste de Bourbon, first (and last) Due du Maine, was a man all but killed by royal kindness. The son of Madame de Montespan, Louis' most beautiful mistress, he became protégé of Madame de Maintenon, Louis' most enduring love. Thoughtful, diffident, unworldly, the Due had no gift for the great stage onto which fate and father thrust...