Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual trappings and ceremonies will mark the occasion. The Union Jack will come fluttering down, and a new blue and yellow flag will rise in its place. A week of parading and full-dress parties is planned. A new Hilton is opening, and the government is getting ready its application for the United Nations. President Johnson is sending Chief Justice Earl Warren to represent him at the ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession...
...Shinier College (enrollment: 514) in Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...
...York Political Correspondent Nick Thimmesch had been following the Rockefeller road since the gubernatorial campaign of 1962. On election night, he was one of three newsmen admitted to the Rockefeller campaign inner sanctum-room 945 of the New York Hilton. Michigan Governor George Romney has been one of Detroit Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan's assignments for more than two years. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding had been on the track of Oregon's Mark Hatfield ever since moving from our Paris office last January. Gooding had come away from his first interview with a deep impression...
Precise arrangements had been made with painstaking care. In Boston, a huge wooden stand was being built for the occasion. In Chicago, local Democrats assembled 118 bands and floats for a parade and 9,000 tickets were issued for an L.B.J. spectacular at the Conrad Hilton. The parade, featuring WELCOME L.B.J. placards, took place anyway. From Massachusetts to Oregon, White House secret service men had feverishly planned security precautions...
What happened next is right out of a Chip Hilton novel. The fired-up Harvard freshmen made Holy Cross pay a lot more for that injury than just a 15-yard penalty...