Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education that he can absorb." Equally attractive was the declared "right of every American to as healthy a life as modern medicine can provide." The N.M.A. had won a different sort of recognition earlier in the week simply by meeting in Houston, where its presence at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, and even in its pool, elevated some eyebrows. "I don't know what the whites are scared of," said one Negro doctor. "These are their kind of people. There are more Toms here than on a turkey farm...
...command posts of the major candidates were installed in the upper floors of the major hotels, surrounded by tons of electronic gear and cut off from unwanted intruders by suspicious guards. Richard Nixon's bunker is a 200-room spread (including penthouse) atop the new Hilton Plaza, a mile north of the Fontainebleau. The nerve center, a former men's sauna, will keep him and some 90 aides in instant touch with practically every delegate. Like the other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well...
Other hotelmen greeted the news with amusement. "Oh, that sounds naughty," said an official of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins when he heard that the New York Hilton, Manhattan's biggest hotel, was going to rent out its rooms on an hourly basis...
...Hilton is concerned, the only thing sinful is that no respectable midtown hotel has done it sooner. Airport motels and hotels have long offered day rates (usually half-price between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.) to travelers who want to rest between flights. The Hilton's "Day-Hour Plan" ($12 for the first three hours, $3 an hour thereafter), which went into effect last week, is a logical next step. It is intended to make life easier and less expensive for today's jet-borne businessman, who often zips in and out of two or three cities...
...hotel, the plan is an obvious way of increasing the occupancy rate, especially during the slack summer season. If the New York experiment is successful (more than 25 people had taken advantage of the hourly rates by noon of the first day), Hilton intends to put it into effect in other U.S. hotels...