Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upstairs, the House, as advertised, is the Quincy-Hilton. Its quads are split-level with built-in refrigerator, four ample bed rooms, and a picture windowed living room. But, halt. Only a handful of unattached sophomores enter this updated paradise. Most spend either a year in Claverly or a year or two in Mather. But this need not spell tragedy. Claverly is rhapsodically described elsewhere in this supplement, and Mather, although its rooms are smaller, differs little from Harvard's other Georgian halls...
Bill Dodgers. The card that has had the hardest struggle is the Hilton Credit Corp.'s Carte Blanche, known in the trade as "Carte Rouge" for its steady deficits. Beginning operations in 1959 after its two competitors had already started. Carte Blanche imprudently handed out cards to poor credit risks, ended up with an inordinate number of bill dodgers. In a rescue operation two years ago, Conrad Hilton eased his son Barren out of the presidency, replaced him with veteran Hotelman Benno M. Bechhold, 60. Bechhold weeded out poor risks, cut the number of cardholders by 100,000 (current...
Barnett's plans for today have not been announced. Shortly before 8:20 p.m. he will be driven from the Statler-Hilton to Sanders Theatre in a private...
...TRINIDAD. In this busy, commercial island off the coast of Venezuela, the brand-new, air-conditioned Trinidad Hilton, completed last summer, can count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...
...term debts, the British had demanded that Zeckendorf sell some of Webb & Knapp's holdings. But Zeckendorf's idea of liquidation differed from his partners': though he sold some holdings, he kept right on buying others (among the purchases: $25 million for Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel). Outraged, the British sent to New York a relay of executives, who camped out in Zeckendorf's Madison Avenue offices to try to halt his acquisitions. But, in his own inimitable way, Zeckendorf confounded the British Expeditionary Force. He made his deals at breakfast, while driving...