Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference concentrated on such grand and general topics as what schools should teach and what were the nation's educational goals. More pragmatic in nature were the 18 themes-ranging from dropouts to teacher training-discussed this year during the sectional meetings held at Washington's Statler-Hilton. Underlying them all was an issue scarcely discussed a decade ago: how to equalize the educational opportunity of the Negro...
...Welcome to the Club." Within 24 hours, he was explaining it all again in a surprise speech to A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction-trade union leaders at Washington's Hilton Hotel. Pointing toward a U.S. flag, he declared: "Where American citizens go, that flag goes with them to protect them." There was a moment of self-indulgence: "I am the most denounced man in the world. All the Communist nations have got a regular program on me that runs 24 hours a day. Some of the non-Communist nations just kind of practice on me. And occasionally, I get touched...
...pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent product. The decision could result in fines and imprisonment for Drug Research's president and fines against the ad agency on 41 separate counts...
...Kastor, Hilton's ads, the Government had charged, featured a "doctored" laboratory report that cited false weight losses, used as "before" and "after" examples TV models who had crash-dieted away pounds supposedly pared off by Regimen. The agency ignored Federal Trade Commission complaints that Regimen, which sold at $3 and $5 for a box that cost as little as 300 to make, was ineffective as a weight reducer without dieting...
...Kastor, Hilton protested that the decision "thrusts upon advertising agencies new and costly responsibilities," announced that it would appeal the verdict. Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel Inc., spoke for many admen when he said that ad agencies "don't consider our chore to be policemen" over their clients' claims. Norman also said, however, that "there is no defense for this kind of advertising," added that it "is simply not true" that most clients want to deceive the public...