Word: hiltonization
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...black. By working as a campus spy for the CIA, you get a draft deferment and recommendations for a job with a good hotel chair. Now you are married and have a kid; Daddy drops dead in front of the television. A few quick success points managing the Chicago Hilton during the Democratic Convention, a gold utility closed key as a retirement gift--fortunately you have paid the life insurance when the coronary hits...
...hear Julie Nixon Eisenhower tell it, anyone can get a good feel of what it's like to live in the White House by checking into the nearest Hilton. Answering questions on a tour of the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Julie said her parents' home is "so big, and there's room service, and every time you walk out the door you run into somebody...
...Caesar is to be played up, it must of necessity be at the expense of Brutus. Andrew Hilton's Brutus is lost from the start, when he comes onstage in a drab bodystocking which fails to distinguish him from even the three-line walk-ons. He simply lacks the physical stature which Brutus requires to dominate the play. There is nothing wrong with Hilton's approach to the role, but his costuming detracts severely from his credibility. This defect changes the entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy...
Almost every major hotel chain in the country is being sued for making small surcharges on room bills under cryptic designations such as 1NTMS (for Internal Message Service); this week Hilton Hotels is expected to settle its part of the suit for $4,000,000. Last week seven young men won a stay of induction for all potential draftees in seven California counties until a federal court decides whether a technicality in the Selective Service law bars all inductions before...
...from where Kosygin's Ilyushin-62 set down was a far larger American Airlines 747 commercial jet that had been hijacked to Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton). The passengers, after a two-night stay, flew on to San Juan, and the 747 was also released. Then, too, the Cuban government was watching with deep interest the exploits of 19 Cuban sugar technicians who flew into New Orleans with 20 minutes' notice to the air controllers...