Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These overtones of violence and disorder gave all the more meaning to a unique, three-day meeting last week at the New York Hilton Hotel. There, under the auspices of Educator Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, scores of statesmen, diplomats, theologians and philosophers met to discuss the means and methods of bringing peace to the world. The participants included Protestants, Buddhists, agnostics and atheists; but the framework for their thinking was the vision of world order contained in Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth...
...Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 77, in Santa Monica's St. John's Hospital with a respiratory infection; Heiress Barbara Mutton, 52, in San Francisco's Presbyterian Medical Center with an intestinal ailment; Belgium's King Baudouin, 34, in the royal palace in Brussels, suffering from infectious hepatitis; Richard Cardinal Cushing, 69, in Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, following surgery for removal of a portion of his intestines; David Oman McKay, 91, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,000,000 Mormons, in Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' Hospital for the third...
...case of Spain's most lucrative foreign producer, Samuel Bronston, the government has gone even farther. Once so overextended that he couldn't pay his tab at Madrid's Castellana Hilton, Bronston has been bailed out with an official two-year moratorium on his debts, plus a fat crude-oil import license. Of course, Bronston has of late been cranking out some patriotic Spanish shorts as a sort...
...Ricans who rue the day. But not the hotelmen. The handle at the island's 13 hotel casinos is conservatively estimated at $50 million a year-which pays the rent, tides the hotels over the lean summer months and brings the tourists back for more. Of the Caribe Hilton's $750,000 profit one year, fully $500,000 came from gambling. Another casino grossed $650,000 in winnings in December alone...
...government keeps a whacking 37% of all casino profits, and makes dead-eye sure everything is on the up and up. It even collects mug shots and a record of all well-known Las Vegas lowlifes, and fingerprints every casino owner-including the likes of Conrad Hilton and Laurance Rockefeller. The government's Gambling Control Section trains and licenses the croupiers, sends inspectors to watch all tables and settle all arguments-usually in favor of the customer. Casinos are prohibited from advertising, serving liquor or accepting bets beyond certain limits. The top is $100 per roll for dice...