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Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 49, did it again last week. Or rather, she undid it again. Confirming rumors that her seventh marriage to her sixth husband was shaky, Liz and Republican Senator John Warner, 54, said they would seek a legal separation after five years of marriage. Warner joins an illustrious cast from Liz's previous marital flings: Hotelier Conrad Hilton Jr. in 1950; British Actor Michael Wilding in 1952; Producer Mike Todd in 1957; Singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; and Actor Richard Burton in 1964 and again in 1975. In the early stages...
...they caught a 5:15 a.m. plane bound for Boston. There were tiny patches of fun during the trip, however. After the match against Stanford, the 12 squad members went to a Harvard alum's house where they ate and drank, and then they returned to the Palo Alto Hilton where they attended a party that sophomore JOE CARRABINO's family had rented several rooms for. Carrabino, who hails from the more Southern California city of Los Angeles, was followed by a clan of Carrabinos wherever he went--"It looked like Joe had developed a fan club like Ferry (freshman...
...When I take visitors around in my boat at sunset, they are just awed," says Stephen Muss, whose family owns the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach. "Where else can we ride in an open boat in winter, looking at a skyline on the horizon, cruise ships slowly turning around in the harbor, jets passing overhead, with the day ending in full color in the blue water of our bay? This is just a sensational place to live...
...cold, starlit night last month a group of 36 strangers was ushered into the Tehran Hilton with all the security precautions that once attended the transfer of the Iranian crown jewels. While plainclothesmen and a detachment of Islamic Guards armed with machine guns hustled the group through the lobby, hotel staffers were amazed to hear the foreigners address one another, and their Iranian hosts, as baradar (brother), in the best tradition of Islamic revolutionaries, while they chatted in flawless, idiomatic Farsi...
Moscow was quick to respond with an offer to supply the knowledge that it has acquired in over 60 years of maintaining one of the world's most effective secret police systems. The Soviet agents soon had to use their skills. No sooner had they settled into the Hilton than they routinely set about checking out the rooms for electronic listening bugs. They found instead a huge time bomb, planted by persons unknown, which they managed to defuse just before zero hour. After some understandably excited exchanges with their Iranian hosts, the newcomers packed up their gear and departed...