Word: hiltonization
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Many hotels and restaurants are not waiting for the law to prod them into accommodating nonsmokers. The Atlanta Marriott Marquis reserves three floors of rooms for abstainers, the Las Vegas Hilton one floor, with two more planned for later this year. Last month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays...
Later that afternoon, while he is waiting for his room at the Flamingo Hilton, Donald Persson deposits three quarters into a slot machine, one of the largest bets of his life, and pulls the lever. The wheels fall into place, and the coins start firing rat-a-tat into the metal change bucket. Persson takes a seat, drops three more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs...
...Hilton '87, the club's third founder, said the Slavic Society plans to sponsor informal events including movies, weekly teas with faculty guests, and Russian song sessions, he said. "Some of the best minds are working on Russian Studies at Harvard and there was no undergraduate organization to follow up on this enthusiasm," Kearney added...
...weekly Observer said that the BBC maintained an MI5 liaison office, now under the guidance of Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, an ex-army intelligence specialist, and that MI5 spied on some BBC staff members, collected information about employee political views, and too often got things wrong. Reporter Isabel Hilton allegedly was refused a job in 1976 because investigators had confused an apolitical group to which she belonged with a leftist organization...
...truth is always much simpler," she said. "The Prince has never said what he thought of her modeling, and he won't make any comment now. The princess is still recuperating (from a bout of intestinal flu). She's been modeling since February, and she was just overtired." Hilton says that Stephanie is "on a little vacation with her father, and she's supposed to return to Paris in a week. Then I'll talk to her about rescheduling...