Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During most of the traumatic week of the convention, a Los Angeles police inspector who was present as an observer thought that "the restraint of the police, both as individual members and as an organization, was beyond reason." But of the Wednesday night battle in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, the same official said: "There is no question but that many officers acted without restraint and exerted force beyond that necessary under the circumstances." As his policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators, shouting...
...report makes it very evident that the well-known "fog of war" hung heavily over Chicago. The violent struggle in front of the Hilton Hotel, which was televised around the world, apparently resulted from lack of communications...
...inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts of a Galapagos Hilton...
...schools of New York will solve but one of poor John's ten plagues. Who will the other nine scapegoats be, pray? C. M. GLASSER Miami Beach Sir: Your gloom about New York reminds me of the Londoners who thought it was the end when the Hilton appeared on the Hyde Park skyline...
...Illinois: About 250 to 350 Chicago protestors marched through the Loop and rallied at the Conrad Hilton Hotel...