Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire, Guy Lombardo, and some of Conrad Hilton's hotels...
...Budapest Hilton? De Gaulle's freewheeling maneuvers are essentially the result of the growing break in the 18-year logjam of the cold war. Washington and Moscow have been moving cautiously toward détente ever since the confrontation of Cuba (where De Gaulle promptly pledged allegiance to the U.S.), encouraging greater independence not only by France in the West but by the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are asserting an astonishing independence of Russia. Communist Hungary even boasts it will soon have a Budapest Hilton...
...grown-up John Thomas never cries. He works for an orthopedic supply house, and he is the Boston representative for something called Niagara Cyclo-Massage machines. He collects jazz records, lives in a two-room basement apartment jammed with fur pelts, tribal masks and African sculpture ("the Congo Hilton," he calls it). "Now I'm going to see what life is really all about," he says. But first there is that Olympic gold medal he intends to win next fall in Tokyo. "It's between me and that bar," says Thomas...
Secret Sessions. The euphoria of the chiefs extended over a mile-square area around Cairo's glass-walled Nile Hilton hotel. Each Arab nation got a half-floor to itself-24 double rooms, plus a three-room corner suite overlooking the Nile and the gardens of Gezira island. Even Nasser moved into the hotel. Egyptian army engineers broke through the walls of both the Hilton and the Arab League Headquarters building, 100 yards distant, and linked the two with a temporary esplanade carpeted in vivid green. Some 2,000 soldiers and police provided security, and traffic, forced to detour...
...other major foreign projects on hand, ranging from a harbor in India to power plants in Buenos Aires. In the postwar period, the firm has completed $200 million worth of foreign construction, including India's first big steel plant, an imperial palace near Teheran and Athens' new Hilton hotel...