Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the Sheraton Corp. of America, which vies with Hilton for the title of leading U.S. hotel chain, was run pretty much as the private, if not always profitable, satrapy of Co-Founder Ernest Henderson. After Henderson's death two months ago, the chain passed to his son, Ernest Henderson III, 43, as president and chief executive, and longtime Henderson Financial Adviser Richard Boonisar, 60, as chairman. Along with the changeover came rumors that Sheraton was ripe for acquisition if the right offer came...
...Carpet. Some pilots, of course, do not get back. So far, the U.S. has lost 689 planes. Their pilots either "buy the farm" (get killed) or end up at "the Hanoi Hilton" (get captured). The three out of four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides...
...Milton Hilton. Obote, who took two years in politics and economics at Makerere University College in Kampala, is cunning and tough. Five years of his rule have brought Uganda a modicum of stability, expanded trade and improved intertribal relations. In the capital of Kampala, Obote's modern outlook is symbolized by the dozens of new office and apartment buildings that brace the skyline. Nearing completion is a skyscraper hotel bearing on its roof a six-foot neon sign with Obote's first name. It has been nicknamed, naturally, "the Milton Hilton...
...best, impossible to duplicate without the time, aid and money to which the Ted Seros who Eisenbud describes simuly had no access. Among these "impossible pictures" are: 1) high angle shots, among them an exposure showing part of Westminster Abbey and the book's color frontispiece representing the Denver Hilton Hotel, which could have been taken only from vantages barred to the earthbound photographer; 2) shots of objects which have apparently never been photographed, like the prints which seem to show Russian Vostok rockets orbiting in space; 3) Serios's near-misses, in which a thoughtograph duplicates an object...
...general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...