Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diplomatic Illness. What with the immense diversity of the Moslem world, the delegates had trouble joining one another just to talk. In the gaudy ballroom of the government-owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...
Miss May writes to devastate, and, much to my delight, she comes down hard on everything, including white liberals, the New York Post , the University of Miami, SNCC, the CIA, Dore Schary and Conrad Hilton. The play is not outwardly disturbing, and yet one cannot help but cringe a bit with every joke. The authoress holds out no hope for anyone, and I can't imagine how anyone could prove her wrong...
...first post was vice president in charge of television sets. Later he took over Hilton's Carte Blanche, lifting the credit-card operation from a $9,000,000 hole and making it profitable...
Promoted to Hilton president in 1966, Barron immediately began reorganizing a management that had been as spread out as its hotels. By centralizing the purchase of housekeeping items under a subsidiary, Hotel Equiment Corp., he saved the parent company money on everything from carpets to cutlery. He reduced the size of hotel payrolls and, to save capital while expanding, formed partnerships with other investors to build Hilton hotels in such places as New York, San Francisco and Hawaii...
...empire, as Barron tells it, "is being on the scene at the proper time." In keeping with that philosophy, Barron jumps into his private jet or his 200-m.p.h. helicopter as readily as most businessmen leap into taxis. Frequently, he manages to visit as many as half a dozen Hilton hotels in a single day. A black Rolls-Royce convertible whisks him from his Beverly Hills headquarters to his palatial home in Holmby Hills, where he, his wife Marilyn and their eight children enjoy a swimming pool, tennis court, putting green, sauna bath and film-projection room...