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...ferry, City of Havana, with rebels carrying their luggage. Other tourists slept in hotel lobbies, guarded by armed bellhops wearing July 26 arm bands. Che Guevara led 600 of his bearded mountain warriors into Havana and bedded them down on the parquet floors of the ballroom of the Havana Hilton Hotel...
Bundy and Fulgencio Batista after months of planning establish a beachhead in Cuba. An unfortunate geographical error lands their troops just north of the Havana Hilton. A jubilant mob welcomes them as the first tourists to arrive in Cuba since January. July 26, the anniversary of the Castro movement, Bundy is appointed Provisional President. He announces the appointment of Henry A. Kissinger as Defense Minister. The Pope announces the appointment of 23 new Cardinals. "It's a nice round number," he comments...
...North American continent last week. For $18 million, Matson Navigation Co. agreed to sell to Sheraton its four Honolulu hotels: the pink Royal Hawaiian, the porticoed Moana, the seven-year-old SurfRider, and the eleven-story Princess Kaiulani-all on famed Waikiki beach. Sheraton, second only to Hilton Hotels Corp., thus got 1,056 more rooms, boosted its total...
...exports ten times as much as it did in 1950. All the world buys its machinery and its Siemens heavy electrical gear (generators for Mexico, transformers for South America). West German women wear Berlin's smartly tailored fashions. Three fancy new hotels have just opened, including the Berlin Hilton, featuring New York-style high prices and bellhops who hop to orders received by pocket radio. The only reason that West...
Married. Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr., 32, a vice president of the Hilton Hotels Corp., son of Hotelman Conrad Hilton; and Patricia Blake McClintock, 18, daughter of Tulsa Millionaire (oil, banking) Frank Grant McClintock and Manhattan Socialite Mrs. William Horace Schmidlapp; she for the first time, he for the second (No. 1: Hollywood's Elizabeth Taylor); in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...