Word: hiltonization
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...This year New York's prostitutes seemed particularly blatant. Growing numbers of businessmen, tourists and residents have complained of being verbally and sometimes physically harassed. Earlier this year a man was murdered by hookers outside the Hilton Hotel when he shunned their advances. Another, a former West German Cabinet member, was robbed by a team of girls...
...Arab blacklist runs to some 600 corporations or individuals in 64 nations. Ford Motor Co. is on it for setting up an assembly plant in Israel despite the fact that there is another Ford subsidiary in Egypt, and Moviemaker Otto Preminger is on it for having made Exodus. But Hilton and Sheraton manage hotels in Tel Aviv as well as Cairo, and such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, SAS and TWA service both sides. Bonwit Teller, the U.S. department store, is on some boycott lists, presumably for handling Israeli fashions...
...where he set up headquarters with Sheehan in a hotel room. But it soon became obvious that the project was too big for two people. On April 22, Sheehan and Gold moved their crates of paper into a five-room suite on the eleventh floor of the New York Hilton. They were joined by a team of eight or nine Times men and women selected not only for their knowledge of Viet Nam but also their ability to keep a secret. Inquisitive colleagues were told that Hedrick Smith, a diplomatic reporter soon to be assigned to Moscow, was "off studying...
...elegance in the bumbling adjustments of a Radcliffe freshman. Living at Radcliffe means more and more living with freshmen and sophomores and a few figity juniors. The bulk of the senior women are gone-worn and dissipated, seeking adventure in Winthrop or Mather or retreat at the Currier Hilton. And they are all women to be taken seriously, not just taken...
...Hilton International plans to stop operating the San Jeronimo Hilton, which will close unless its new owners, a local business group, find other hotel people to run it. The Dorado Hilton is scheduled to shut in June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn...