Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at a literary luncheon at Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, Felix Frankfurter, oldest justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, warned the guests that most political diaries are scarcely worth the research to blow them to hell. Frankfurter, whose tape-recorded reminiscences were published last year, explained that few diarists deliberately lie, but they are all prey to "the fallibility of the human memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce...
Twenty minutes after Kennedy's arrival, Richard Nixon's Government Cadillac pulled up and disgorged the Republican team. Nixon had recently emerged from a Statler-Hilton hotel suite where he spent a few uninterrupted hours of peace and thought. Inside the studio Nixon stepped straight up to the platform, put his wristwatch on his speaker's stand. He had been made up at home by an expert, and an accompanying lighting expert pronounced NBC's lights perfectly all right. A few minutes before they went on the air, Kennedy strolled over to the Vice President...
...week Ike left his chair and charged into his first week of active politicking with the gusto of a veteran G.I. answering chow call. The week's high point came as a drumroll of applause beat up to the speaker's dais in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel. Ike flashed a Nixon-Lodge badge as big as a butter plate, grinned mightily, pumped his arms skyward in the familiar big V for the benefit of 40,000 Republicans, linked at fund-raising dinners in 36 cities by closed circuit TV. Then well aware that Republicans were still...
Saltonstall still seemed to be amazingly popular with Bostonians, although it is hard to say why. He seems to be a nice enough old duck, without glaring faults or shining virtues. When the motorcade reached the Statler-Hilton, Salty stood unnoticed, without even a police escort, while the crowd mobbed Nixon. Once Nixon was safely inside the hotel, however, the throng feel on the Senator with the affection of a mother for her long-lost son. One beefy fan kept pounding Saltonstall on the back and shouting, "Hey look! It's Salty! How are ya, Salty?" Such is the love...
...result is that Becket's plans, unlike those of many less business-oriented architects, consistently turn into buildings. His clients, which include six of the top ten U.S. industrial corporations, often come back for more. He has completed five Hilton hotels, six projects for Kaiser. When Hallmark Card President Joyce Hall admired some card-display racks in a Pasadena store completely designed by Becket, he went to see Becket. Becket not only got Hallmark's business but a contract to build a home for Hall. He has since done eight Hallmark buildings...