Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the German-built steel mill near Cairo and even the star belly dancer at the Nile Hilton who, in deference to the Russian visitors, obeyed the usually ignored regulations by being swathed in silk from neck to ankles. Khrushchev's humor less, polemic speeches and their end less translations bored dwindling crowds in Cairo, Port Said and Alexandria...
Designer of this San Francisco Hilton is Architect William Tabler, 49, who has unpinned some 60 major hotels from his drawing board-nine of them Hiltons, with three more Hiltons in the works. San Francisco's antique building codes gave him a rough time, and now that the hotel is finished, there is much head shaking over the look of it-a gleaming checkerboard of glass and marble that has been compared to a white-on-white box of Ralston...
...population has effectively tripled in the past four years to 140,000. Steel mills, nucleonics plants, and vast chemical complexes that will provide fertilizer to replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt." Four resort hotels, plus the Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where oldtimers still sip icy martinis on the veranda and watch the river ride by. The presence of the High Dam and the threatened antiquities above Aswan have bred a burgeoning tourist trade, and each...
...indeed takes pleasure in vicariously viewing the inhabitants of the Elsinore Hilton, some possible shortcomings in cast and costume notwithstanding...
According to Messer, William B. Tabler '36 of New York City will design the motel. Tabler specializes in tall hotels, and has designed several Hilton Hotels scattered around the country...