Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between sessions at a conference on religion and the arts at the New York Hilton last week, delegates wandered through a maze of 1,500 cardboard boxes stacked seven feet high in two exhibition halls. Pasted on the vividly painted cartons were collages of photographs from Viet Nam, Newark and Vogue, bits of magazine ads, scribbled quotations from John Kennedy, Albert Camus and Beatle John Lennon. In effect, the exhibit - entitled "Survival with Style"- was a dramatic plea to man's conscience. A message in blank verse invited viewers to mull over the maze and "find alternatives...
...active than other men in their prime. He conceived Hawaii Kai, a $350 million model community on 6,000 acres that will eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental agency that provided pink Jeeps (Kaiser's favorite color...
...late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...
Bamboo & Bromelia. Currently, Roberto is busy landscaping grounds for the Dorado Hilton in Puerto Rico, but he is happiest in the gardens of his mountain country estate 30 miles east of Rio. There he strolls among more than 300 varieties of philodendrons (one of them named by botanists the Philodendron burle marx) and specimens of bromelia. "It is obvious," he says, "that the concept of a garden goes beyond an esthetic composition. It also signifies the necessity of men to live intimately with nature...
...educating their alumni by class, some large universities hold separate reunions for graduates of their various schools, prime them with seminars and lectures related to their special interests. Last October, for example, the University of Minnesota held a reunion for its business administration alumni at the St. Paul Hilton, where a banker lectured on tight money and faculty economists examined new approaches to understanding consumer behavior. Vanderbilt offers both specialized and general seminars. Last weekend, alumni of the medical school were treated to a series of discussions on such topics as the new penicillin and the cellular aspects...