Word: hatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nova-Park Elysées, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham...
...restaurants and ten bars, a disco, a nightclub, a businessman's service center with stock exchange quotes and multilingual secretaries, a fitness club, a swimming pool with "beach club," even a corner for bridge players. There are no Gideon Bibles in the rooms. Instead, to "Parisianize" foreigners, Hatt plans to provide French classics. On the walls hang framed pens...
...guest should never have to stir outside his hotel"), Paris is not the kind of city where visitors feel constrained to eat where they sleep. Besides, there is the Rolls and, to make outside restaurant reservations, the beautiful Margaret, who is indisputably the most attractive head receptionist in Paris. Hatt & Co. must be doing something right. The Nova-Park Elysées is sold out through August. - By Michael Demarest