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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...
Mafatlal's jute plant and ten textile mills employ 25,000 Indians, produce 4% of India's cloth, and specialize in the low-cost cottons that make up the traditional dress of most Indians. Dissatisfied with too much dependence on textiles, Mafatlal recently linked up with West Germany's Farbwerke Hoechst to build a $21 million, nine-plant petrochemical complex that will be India's largest. By bringing a much-needed new industry to India, he hopes to dispel the notion, widely held among his countrymen, that all industrialists are merely greedy. Says Mafatlal...
Recently a Princeton graduate put toward a new argument, the Robes Thesis: "At the tutorial the student wears the undignified commoner's gown, a jacket of black cloth reaching hardly to the waist. The tutor, however, is dressed in the magnificently flowing black robes of a Master of Arts. This gives a hint of the Oxford notion of the proper relationship between teacher and pupil: the leader is one who knows and the pupil learns from...
...Between orgies of shopping, the King relaxed at El Morocco, Voisin, Sardi's, and the Barnum & Bailey circus at Madison Square Garden. Fearful of a bad press, Moroccan officials hurriedly advised newsmen that the five Cadillacs were for a governmental car pool back home, and the piles of cloth would be used to outfit a new government-supervised Hilton hotel in Rabat...
Raising the Flag. It all began peacefully enough with a banner-waving parade toward Westminster,, where workers' leaders were determined to carry personal protests to their M.P.s. Awkwardly at first, many fingering the cloth caps that are the traditional badge of the British workingman, they stood talking until the House of Commons' big Central Lobby was jammed, while a surging mob of workers still outside jostled impatiently to get through St. Stephen's doorway...