Word: hiltonization
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Jacques C. Cosse, Director of P.R. Hilton Hotels Corp. Beverly Hills, Calif...
...like it one damn bit." He told New York Mayor Abe Beame and Governor Hugh Carey something had to be done, complained to labor union officials, contractors and supply firms and came to New York City for a meeting with all concerned at the Statler Hilton (where double-room rates will be the standard...
...media update" to the 175 press organizations that have assigned some 10,000 journalists, technicians and aides to the convention. It offered names of equipment suppliers in New York City so that long-distance comparison shopping would be possible, and warned that deliveries to the Statler Hilton and the Garden should be firmly scheduled. The reason: labor charges for moving equipment in and out of the two buildings could substantially exceed the rental price of the equipment itself. The company handling Garden deliveries has been unable to offer any cost estimates...
...followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk. (Champaign, Ill., buses have been so equipped for two decades.) In Sacramento and Palo Alto, ramps have been built into curbs at virtually all commercial intersections. Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains are setting aside special rooms in their new buildings for the disabled; Holiday Inns has been doing so since 1969, allotting one room in every 100 to wheelchair users. These rooms have wide doors, bathrooms with railings, trapeze arrangements to help paraplegics...
...Harvard administrator, the oil crisis and the resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...