Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here's your chance," Toastmaster George Murphy told the 2,000 diners at the Washington Hilton, "to sit in the presence of the next President of the U.S." Well, Lyndon Johnson was nowhere in sight, and neither were Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy. But just about every Republican aspirant for 1968 was on hand. The $500-a-plate affair was billed as a "G.O.P. Victory Gala" to celebrate last November's comeback, but it was more of a preview for next year. It was also the most profitable single event in the party's history, netting...
...also now free. He testified that in June of 1945, his Soviet-consul spymaster, Anatoli Yakovlev, sent him to pick up information from Turncoat Physicist Klaus Fuchs in Santa Fe and from Greenglass in Albuquerque, where he signed a registration card in his own name at the Hotel Hilton. At the time of the Rosenberg trial, Gold had already pleaded guilty and was serving a 30-year sentence for conspiring with Fuchs...
...capital of Valletta, which was founded by the Knights of Malta to commemorate their victory over an invading Ottoman fleet, sailors find a paradise of bars, cabarets and girls. In its "fiveyear plan," the island has already built a gambling casino, and next year both a Sheraton and a Hilton hotel will rise over Malta's limestone walls and domed churches...
...Hilton International, since 1964 a separate corporate entity from the domestic chain, operates 34 hotels, plus two Nile-plying cruise ships. The company has reported revenue increases of almost 200% over the past five years, estimates that 1966 income will rise to $122 million. Its hotels are located along a necklace of cities that would start even a stay-at-home packing. Among them: Acapulco, Paris, Athens, Bangkok and Hong Kong, all on present or pending TWA routes...
...proposed merger of the two companies, which will involve a stock swap and the retention of Hilton's name and penthouse-level management, comes at a propitious moment: TWA is negotiating for rights to new, competitive trans-Pacific routes that would include Tokyo and Honolulu, where Hilton hotels are waiting. Additionally, good hotel accommodations are scarce, foreign-financed hotel construction is stagnant, and by 1970, TWA will have a fleet of cavern-cabined Boeing 747 jets hauling hordes of passengers around the globe. "With more people flying and more planes carrying them," said a TWA spokesman...