Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vacation-bound Europeans can find a wider selection of resorts at Britain's Thos. Cook & Sons, fancier accommodations at Hilton hotels, or lower prices at youth hostels and campsites. The competition is intense, but even so, the Paris-based Club Mediterranee has prospered. For its 700,000 members, who pay $10 each in annual dues, Mediterranee has a unique attraction-the away-from-it-all ambiance of the 47 "vacation villages" that it maintains in 13 countries on five continents. Founded in 1950, the club has been increasing its revenues by 25% a year; in 1968 it took...
...blocks of stock in insurance firms, steel corporations, a leading tourist organization, the Lancia automobile company and several construction firms. As the largest shareholder in Generale Immobiliare, Italy's largest construction firm, the Vatican helped finance the Rome Hilton and the huge Watergate apartment complex in Washington...
...Name Anyway. Today, Monrovia is still a provincial town, but it has nonetheless changed considerably. A splendid, glittering presidential palace, looking like a cross between a Hilton hotel and New York's Museum of Modern Art, overlooks the town-and some of its slums. The John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, built with U.S. aid and now nearing completion, will be one of the most modern in all of West Africa. Some 2,000 miles of road, paved or not, are open, three railway spurs lead to rich inland iron-ore mines, and low shipping-registration fees (which netted...
...statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, said of his men: "They were beautiful. They conducted themselves as professional policemen...
...jets to take off with passengers from Jose Marti Airport, and it takes time for the airline involved to ferry over a substitute prop plane. Passengers meanwhile are billeted either at Jose Marti Airport or at one of two good hotels: the downtown Havana Libre (formerly the Havana Hilton), or the Varadero International, located 35 minutes out of town but convenient to Varadero Airport, from which your prop plane will depart. Depending on your accommodations, here is what to expect...