Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million loss from airline operations into a $9.1 million pretax profit. TWA saved $20.6 million in current "costs" simply by spreading the depreciation of most of its planes over twelve or 14 years, instead of eleven years. Other income and credits, including $6.2 million from TWA-owned Hilton International, raised the line's reported net to $21.2 million...
Their plans, it charged, included one to "occupy forcibly, and hold all or part of the Conrad Hilton Hotel" on the day of the presidential nomination...
...wife of Robert Motherwell, and in a sense, Helen always seemed in the artistic shadow of her husband and other "first-generation" Abstract Expressionists. Thus it came as something of a discovery to learn that Helen can really paint. "For myself," wrote the New York Times's Hilton Kramer, "this exhibition establishes Miss Frankenthaler as one of our best painters." Barbara Rose, in an article for the April Art forum, will argue that Helen Frankenthaler is "one of the major figures in world art in the last two decades...
...Force One and three other Boeing 707 jets will first touch down, next Sunday, at Melsbroek, a military airfield near the Belgian capital. White House press facilities are already being installed in the Brussels Hilton, and Nixon will stay either in that motel-modern setting or in the opulent apartments of former King Leopold II in the 18th century palace. At NATO's new headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels, the President is expected to address the 15 ambassadors of the NATO permanent council.* He will also meet Jean Rey, head of the Common Market executive commission...
Died. Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 42, a director of his father's 41-nation hotel chain and inveterate playboy, who in 1950 became the first husband of an 18-year-old super-starlet named Elizabeth Taylor, was divorced by her after nine months and later remarried only once; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif...