Word: hiltonization
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...Carpet. Some pilots, of course, do not get back. So far, the U.S. has lost 689 planes. Their pilots either "buy the farm" (get killed) or end up at "the Hanoi Hilton" (get captured). The three out of four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides...
...general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...
Kassamali put in both of them, the first time off a short pass from Nicolaides, and the second time heading in a pass from Hilton Foster. It was a remarkable performance for the Tanzanian speedster, one of the finest forwards Harvard will see all year...
Romney dined and talked with Daniel P. Moynihan and about a dozen other members of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, watched President Johnson's speech on television, and then left quickly for the Statler Hilton, where he was to spend the night...
Somewhat Sanguine. This was hardly enough for California Activist Pat Maginnis, 39, a medical technician who has had three abortions herself. Uninvited to the conference, she led pickets outside the Hilton Hotel and gave public lectures on self-abortion. It was her startling opinion that no law held the woman responsible for ridding herself of an unwanted child. Therefore, she argued, the police can take no action "even if you take your fetus into the police station and tell them you just did your own abortion...