Word: hiltonization
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...even if the words flowed smoothly, a Thursday morning breakfast at the public dining room of the Statler Hilton Hotel must have seemed a strange and difficult place...
Mclntire wants to turn the Cape into a combination retirement village, college and convention center for supporters of his anti-Communist gospel. He has closed the bar in the Hilton and plans to impress the lessons of the Scriptures on visitors by converting buildings once owned by space contractors into replicas of biblical scenes. There will be a kitsch re-creation of King Solomon...
...plan is the result of one large landowner's wish to develop 11,000 acres on Hilton Head Island, a coastal oasis for well-to-do retired executives, who hotly opposed the B.A.S.F. plan. Fred Hack, president of the Hilton Head Co., asked the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to draw up a suitable land plan. What Planner John Galston of S.O.M. suggested is a regional plan to develop indigenous industry (fishing, farming, wood products), a step that he feels will create the greatest economic growth. As Galston sees it, "an artificially created economy" like B.A.S.F. would actually...
Fish and Men. The problem with such a broad plan is how to muster political support to carry it out. The Hilton Head Co. is eager to start, but other South Carolinians have deep reservations. J. Bonner Manly, director of the South Carolina Development Board, argues that the plan will take up to 20 years to complete-while hunger continues. Manly adds that he will seek far more industry for the region, because "I still put human beings ahead of birds and fish...
...contrast, the S.O.M. plan is warmly backed by Thomas Barnwell Jr., an official of the black-run Hilton Head Fishing Cooperative. Barnwell is for development-as long as nothing harms the area's shrimp fishing. "Too often," he says, "environmentalists worry only about industrial pollution while ignoring the needs of the poor." In this case, birds and fish may be crucial to saving human beings...