Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest hour," boasted an Israeli spokesman. "Or did it take longer than that?" Darryl Zanuck announced plans for a zillion-dollar war movie entitled The Shortest Day. Cassius Clay, the erstwhile Muhammad Ali, changed his name to Morris Steinberg. Ten bar mitzvahs were scheduled at the Nile Hilton, and Jennie Grossinger agreed to manage the hotel...
...United Nations Secretary General U Thant, who flew off to Cairo on short notice to chat with Nasser. After running the gauntlet of workers chanting "God is great, long live Nasser, Egypt will win!" and being forced to cool his heels for 24 hours at Cairo's Nile Hilton, Thant finally got to see Nasser at a four-hour "working dinner," at which he mostly listened. He accomplished little, and returned a day earlier than planned to the U.N., where he handed the Security Council an unremarkable six-page report suggesting that the only way out of the crisis...
With the corporation's 80 hostelries dotting the earth from Nicosia to Vancouver, Barren Hilton, 39, Conrad's son and head of the Hilton operation in the U.S., figures it's time to start thinking of farther-out sites for another inn. In a speech before the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, Barren launched into a description of his plans for the Lunar Hilton, an underground 100-room hotel to be built just below the moon's crust. "In almost every respect it will be physically like an earth Hilton," he explained, calculating that construction...
...Algeria has fallen far behind in tourist facilities. But in Morocco, there are hundreds of miles of beaches in the Blue Country, where the Sahara Desert touches the Atlantic and the sun shines at least 300 days a year. The capital city of Rabat now has a luxurious new Hilton Hotel (up to $18 a day), a swinging night life, and a high-powered crowd of jet-set visitors, who include Princess Lee Radziwill, Mick Jagger and Paul Getty Jr. (who recently bought a Marrakesh palace...
Meanwhile on the West Coast, about 1,200 Douglas Aircraft stockholders gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the company's final annual meeting. Seventy-two percent of the shareholders voted for merger with McDonnell Aircraft, which is expected to take place at month's end. Even after Donald W. Douglas Sr. described the "sharp and ultimately disastrous reversal of our fortunes," which meant a loss of $27.5 million in 1966, the shareholders gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps symbolic of Douglas' lackluster recent days was a movie shown to the gathering about its DC-8 jets...