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...department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner that reads, then transmits the information it has read onto cards or tapes that can be used by IBM machines and other automated systems. Expected sales this year: $12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTRONICS: The Idea Road | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Cabinet Split | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Angeles that Symington was able to do any real digging out of reach of the watchful Brown followers. There, at a cocktail party at the home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth and whose influence as Harry Truman's top West Coast follower are Symington's best hopes for striking California pay dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The California Trail | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume. But most hotels are still of mosquito-net, pre-Hilton vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST INDIES: Eyes on Paris | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...HILTON HOTEL in San Francisco will feature parking facilities for guests' cars on same floor as their rooms. Ramps from special automobile lobby will lead to 400 parking spaces on seven floors of 18-story building, to be completed by end of 1961 at cost of $25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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