Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even fed the peasants' livestock and rebuilt their pens. They have built schools and paved over the long-unused Saigon-Hué railroad to make the only road in the Danang area that is passable during the monsoons. Result: for the first time...
...Young Democrats are holding their National Convention in New York next week. For five days the junior-grade politicians will rush around the lobbies and suites of the Statler Hilton vying for executive positions and confirming their obvious and implicit support of the National Democratic Party...
Conrad's Comrade. The "Citibank," as moneymen call it, last week dealt into another fast-growing business: credit cards. For $12 million, it will buy control of Hilton Hotels' profitable Carte Blanche, which bills $90 million a year. In a complex pact, Hilton and Citibank each will own half of Carte Blanche, but the bank will hold all the voting stock. Hilton figures that Citi bank's worldwide outlets will help Carte Blanche trump the two leaders in the field, American Express and Diners' Club. Moreover, Citibank is strong in the eastern U.S., and Carte Blanche...
Within an hour, Razzak's coup was finished. He and his family were put aboard a plane and flown to Cairo where, after spending a night in Nasser's Tahra Palace, they moved into a luxury suite on the 19th floor of the Nile Hilton, next door to the suite of U.S. Film Star Charlton Heston and his family. On his way home from Casablanca, President Aref also stopped off in Cairo, perhaps to impress on Nasser the need for making haste slowly in ar ranging the eventual union of their two nations...
...they?" She noted that "John McHugh and Trumbull Barton, whose Staten Island party for Margot and Rudy last spring made history, have gone off to Venice to visit an 87-year-old girl chum. They swear she's still fascinating. Maybe it's the canals." Trish Hilton's mother, Mrs. Horace Schmidlapp, said Suzy, turned up at her own party in "some red-hot Galitzine pajamas with no neck at all. There was an awful lot of Mummy showing because, holy mackerel, when that Galitzine gets those scissors out, she cuts out all the backs...