Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Travelers who have seen such strikingly dissimilar buildings as Cairo's Nile Hilton hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...
...member A.F.L.-C.I.O. general board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party...
...Gabor: My Story Written for Me by Gerold Frank (World; $3.95). From Hungary to satiety, via Conrad Hilton, George Sanders and Porfirio Rubirosa. If this sentence were not the book's last, it would be fair warning: "Who knows, in this life of ours, what is really true and what is enchanting make-believe...
Strengthening Grasp. Nixon's first move had the impact of a grand-slam homer in the last of the ninth. He called a press conference. A throng of newsmen, TV people and photographers crushed into a long, narrow room at the Conrad Hilton and fired shotgun questions. With each answer Nixon deftly assumed his strengthening grasp of leadership...
...went to Toots Shor, whose sporty restaurant on the site came tumbling down. By this spring the estimated cost of the hotel had risen to $80 million, but Zeckendorf was still $35 million short. He scurried around trying to interest Hotelman Laurence Tisch and the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains in bailing him out. All said no: construction and rental costs for the site were too high to make a hotel...