Word: hiltonization
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...command posts of the major candidates were installed in the upper floors of the major hotels, surrounded by tons of electronic gear and cut off from unwanted intruders by suspicious guards. Richard Nixon's bunker is a 200-room spread (including penthouse) atop the new Hilton Plaza, a mile north of the Fontainebleau. The nerve center, a former men's sauna, will keep him and some 90 aides in instant touch with practically every delegate. Like the other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well...
Other hotelmen greeted the news with amusement. "Oh, that sounds naughty," said an official of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins when he heard that the New York Hilton, Manhattan's biggest hotel, was going to rent out its rooms on an hourly basis...
...Million Cocktail. At the Havana Libre, formerly the Hilton Hotel, the clientele still is cosmopolitan, but the tone has changed. Chunky Russian technicians jostle wispy North Koreans in the elevator. In the lobby, Havana women, necklines plunging down their backs in the style of a decade ago, click across the marble floors to the tune of Heroic Guerrilla played on the p.a. system...
MICHAEL L. HILTON...
Campione figures that Aerhotels will get most of their business from the new 450-passenger jumbo jets. Following the trend started by TWA, which shuffles packaged tours into Hilton hotels, and Pan American, which feeds customers to its Intercontinental chain, Aerhotels will serve Alitalia travelers...