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...outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...

Author: By Rich Strasser, | Title: Beyond the Copacabana | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

Other operational sites were lined up: hotel suites at the Hilton Inn and the International Hotel, both at New York's Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...mammoth Washington Hilton ballroom, Rex Humbard, 60, and his family tape their down-home variety show of song and gospel patter for his 236 TV outlets in the U.S. and 414 in other nations. The set: a rotating stage carpeted in black velvet with a ramp bordered by flashing lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stars of the Cathode Church | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Bank Omran, one of Iran's largest banks; 80% ownership of Bimeh Melli, the nation's third largest insurance company; and full or partial interests in auto factories (10% of GM Iran), cement plants, sugar mills, housing projects and a string of hotels, including the Tehran Hilton. Indeed, Graham estimates that the Shah, through the foundation, once owned 70% of all the hotel beds in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...cheeks and slightly graying temples, the still handsome candidate declared, "I am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States." Some 1,500 followers, who had paid $500 each to be present in the grand ballroom of the New York Hilton, stood and roared their approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Will the Last Remain First? | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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