Word: hiltonization
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...country's reputation as a model of African capitalism and stable black self-rule in the midst of a region of turbulence. Suddenly, Kenya was revealed as a country racked, beneath its placid surface, by savage and dangerous political and economic tensions. Says Peter Frank, manager of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Nairobi: "The magic that was Kenya disappeared on a Sunday morning...
...gaming floors. Five years ago, even a fee of $100,000 or more a week seemed a bargain if a star actually pulled customers onto the gaming floors. Just before his death in 1977, Elvis Presley was paid about $125,000 a week by the Las Vegas Hilton, for example, and, in the way salaries are measured, he was worth every penny. "Elvis not only sold out every show, but we had to turn down thousands of requests for tickets every day," says Hilton Executive Vice President Henri Lewin. "He would have been reasonable if he had cost the hotel...
...AFTERNOON of March 30, 1981 forced unforgettable television images on a nation unaccustomed to dramas more serious than General Hospital. White house press Secretary James Brady, gravely wounded, bleeding into a sidewalk grating in front of the Capitol Hilton. A stunned Ronald Reagan, unaware of his own serious wound, being shoved into his limousine as bullets zipped past him. A secret serviceman, brandishing a submachine gun, yelling wildly at crowds to keep back while his colleagues wrestled with the President's assailant. Another aide running through the midst of the panic, clutching a briefcase later identified as the presidential "black...
...showed a deserted Moscow street in the early morning. Walter Cronkite-in the U.S.S.R. preparing a special documentary-lectured on the meaning of America's latest assassination scare. What, Cronkite asked rhetorically, would the Russians think of America when they arose and heard of the events outside the Capitol Hilton? America would again seem to be cascading out of control. The political violence endemic to our democracy since 1963 would seem by implication to justify the domestic repressive measures of the Soviet Union, where political violence from the populace has been nearly non-existent...
...Hilly is Hilton Cohen, who fought under the name Hilton David Cohen until his nose started to resemble a mine cave-in. Together they ran in the mornings. "Hilly had all K.O.s in the Golden Gloves one year. I said, 'Listen, Hilly. Don't expect to knock everyone out.' I was trying to give him my experience, but he took it wrong. Thought I was jealous. We had a big argument, and he went out and lost. Hilly doesn't know how to talk to people, but he's my friend...