Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, it was the English, not the British, who started exploration and settlement in North America. Shakespeare is an English author; Burns a Scottish or Scots or Scotch author; Yeats an Irish author. The only British author I can think of at the moment is James Hilton of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. D. W. BROGAN Cambridge, England
...management, have pyramided Sheraton in 25 years from a single money-losing hotel to a corporate giant with estimated assets of $400 million and 66 hotels scattered from Tel Aviv to Honolulu. (Sheraton, which has more hotels, vies for the title of "world's largest hotel chain" with Hilton, which has more rooms.) And while occupancy rates in most U.S. hotels have dropped steadily in the past decade, Sheraton's rate has been climbing; in May it stood at 74%, v. 64% for the industry as a whole...
...together tuna-fish sandwiches as substitutes for halibut thermidor. At a $25-a-plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem. But it was not a real test. All Mechem wanted was bourbon and water...
...Ataturk's campaign of liberation from the Ottoman pashas and their Western allies. In the southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey, the U.S.'s firm NATO ally, but it scarcely concealed the country's troubles...
...with landing strips big enough for private planes-have opened farther down the coast. Most ambitious is the 60-suite, $1,000,000 Hotel Cabo San Lucas, near the village of the same name, whose stockholders include such enthusiasts as Kirk Douglas, Airplane Maker Donald Douglas Sr. and Barren Hilton, son of Hotelman Conrad. Heretofore, the only way an ordinary traveler could get to lower Baja has been by commercial flight or road from Los Angeles to San Diego, where he had to cross the border to Tijuana, then take a three-flights-a-week plane...