Word: hiltonization
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Outside the Hilton, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Balbo Drive, I stood talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event...
...park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers. At least 30 of them will be winding through the Deep South on a bus tour to reach low-wage health-care workers, stopping along the way at civil rights touchstones such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
...step in Bollenbach's campaign is bound to be international. Nine years ago, Hilton's international properties were sold and are now owned by Ladbroke's, a British gambling concern. Bitter disputes followed, especially after Hilton began opening overseas hotels called Conrad. Both companies could benefit from a joint marketing agreement, if not a merger...
Bollenbach agrees. But he points out that much of the new construction is in the small, limited-service-hotel segment of the business. He likes Hilton's location just fine--and he can always get a room...
...disagrees with Dole on a number of key issues such as abortion and affirmative action. So is he waiting for 2000, or heading off into the sunset once and for all? "I haven't passed over yet," Powell offered, sphinx-like. "I'm not ready to go down to Hilton Head and sit in a rocking chair and drink gin fizzes." Anita Hamilton