Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble was the last thing Dora Surowitz expected when she invested a hard-earned $2,000 in Hilton Hotels Corp. Trouble was the last thing Hilton expected from Mrs. Surowitz, a Brooklyn seamstress and Polish immigrant who had as little knowledge of stocks as she did of English. Yet last week the U.S. Supreme Court indignantly upheld Mrs. Surowitz's right to find out whether Hilton is, as she claims, hiding a multimillion-dollar fraud against its stockholders...
...Maginot Hilton. Ghana used to be known as the Gold Coast, and independence, in 1957, came with a silver lining. With cocoa exports thriving and the beginnings of a modern industrial plant, the country had $560 million in foreign currency reserves, boasted one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Nkrumah squandered it on such expensive status symbols as an international jet airline, which loses almost twice as much money as it earns, and a $20 million international conference site which includes a bulletproof, bombproof, twelve-story apartment hotel that Accra wags call "the Maginot Hilton." To promote...
...stand, Hunt brought the show to the ball. At his Fete de Fevrier, a small social for 600 to raise funds for his Foundation of Modern Art, he arranged to have the U.S. premiere of the film souffle, Made in Paris, held right after dinner in the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom. Over their coffee and tea, Salvador Dali and the rest of his friends settled back to watch Ann-Margret tumble in love with Louis Jourdan in the film, which was not such a ball after...
...with buses and horse-drawn surreys. Developed haphazardly, with a strong flavor of claptrap and ticky-tacky, the magnificent sweep of beaches has seen the tide of tourism rise, then ebb. Now it is rising again, to fill the well-appointed hotels for the average tourist -El Presidente, Acapulco Hilton, El Elcano-sitting on the beach, surrounded by well-stocked shops...
...invented the Bunny Dip interviewed 60 young ladies yesterday at the Statler Hilton, in his search for girls to staff the soon-to-be-opened Boston Playboy Club...