Word: hiltonization
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...some hotel owners are turning to computerized electronic locks to foil burglars. The most popular system is made by Uniqey International of Santa Ana, Calif., and is used in 20 European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door...
While reservations at hotels and vacation resorts have not dropped sharply in all cities, isolated floods of cancellations are beginning to develop. In New Orleans, no-shows at the New Orleans Hilton & Towers are running at 50% for the week...
Instead of boarding the flight home, Runkle, using the name M. Clark, paid $204 in cash for a one-way fare to Chicago. Still using her assumed name, she registered at the O'Hare Airport Hilton Hotel and paid cash for her room. She browsed the lobby later that night-and was never seen alive again...
...Fury, 56, was standing outside the Washington Hilton, where he works as director of security. It was a drizzly March afternoon, and President Ronald Reagan was on his way to the hotel to give a speech. Fury, his eye out for potential troublemakers, spotted a heckler he knew in the crowd and quickly snapped him with his Olympus camera. Unfortunately, when the film was developed, the heckler was nowhere in sight. He had ducked behind the group of President watchers. But Fury did discover someone more intriguing: President-Stalker John W. Hinckley. In the midst of a group of smiling...
...real estate, the Kuwaitis have moved rapidly into the U.S. Sunbelt. They own the 30-story Atlanta Hilton Hotel, as well as all of South Carolina's Kiawah Island, a resort that has generated some $200 million in revenues for the Kuwaitis on an original investment of only $17.4 million. Kuwait owns parcels of real estate in New Orleans, Boston and Washington, D.C., including office space now rented by the General Services Administration...