Word: hiltonization
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When John Hilton Knowles was director of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the elevator operator called him John, the nurses thought him charmingly handsome, and both the medical staff and trustees considered him something of a miracle worker. He burnished the hospital's already fine reputation. Under his leadership, the hospital's physical plant was partially rebuilt, while much of its ponderous bureaucracy was short-circuited. He promoted an extended-care unit for the aged and chronically ill, established clinics in Boston's heavily Italian North End and in depressed Charlestown. He engineered the opening...
...motels and hotels make no effort at all to check. Loew's Corp. President Preston Tisch remembers ruefully when his teen-age son was working behind the desk of the Americana in Manhattan. Says Tisch: "He wouldn't check in one unmarried couple. They went to the Hilton and we lost $30. I fired...
...empty on weekends. Their average occupancy rate has shriveled from about 80% two decades ago to 63%, which is below the break-even point for many large hotels. There are profitable exceptions, particularly in New York City and Chicago; Manhattan's 2,153-room New York Hilton and the 2,000-room Americana are often sold...
INDIANA. One high point of Wallace's characteristically helter-skelter campaign in Indiana was a $25-a-plate lunch at the Indianapolis Hilton, which drew, among others, Grand Dragon William Chaney of the state Ku Klux Klan and Frank Thompson, head of a local John Birch Society chapter, who listed Wallace's credentials: "He's American, he's Christian, he's experienced." Humphrey did not start campaigning in Indiana until seven days before last week's primary, and at that he had to divide his time between Indiana and neighboring Ohio. Humphrey squeaked through...
...last year. The rate for a medium-range London hotel has been boosted from about $18 to $23. In Paris, a traveler paying in dollars could get a double room at the Ritz for $54 last year; this year the tab comes to $65. A double at the Hilton in Paris has jumped $15, to $53. Even the price of a bed in German youth hostels climbed, from...