Word: hiltonization
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...Club Mediterranee, which has built a 500,000-member clientele in Europe and is successfully offering equal opportunities to Americans. The Mediterranee's basic gimmick for togetherness is that you always sit at a table for eight-but you can change tables for any meal. This spring Hilton Hotels launched a special tour to Puerto Rico aimed at the singles market: "What can you expect for $133 on your Hilton Swingles Week in San Juan?" A welcoming cocktail and plenty of action, "fashion shows, cinema, horse racing, free feature motion pictures and a souvenir photograph of you and your...
Between sessions at a conference on religion and the arts at the New York Hilton last week, delegates wandered through a maze of 1,500 cardboard boxes stacked seven feet high in two exhibition halls. Pasted on the vividly painted cartons were collages of photographs from Viet Nam, Newark and Vogue, bits of magazine ads, scribbled quotations from John Kennedy, Albert Camus and Beatle John Lennon. In effect, the exhibit - entitled "Survival with Style"- was a dramatic plea to man's conscience. A message in blank verse invited viewers to mull over the maze and "find alternatives...
...strength of the unmet foreign demand for telephone lines; even in industrialized Europe, there are only ten telephones for every 100 people v. 48 per 100 in the U.S. ITT recently installed a 5,000-line telephone exchange in Madras, India, won a contract to supply the Hong Kong Hilton with a 1,000-ex-tension automatic phone system. Another rich market opening up is in worldwide satellite communications; ITT (after A.T. & T. the largest stockholder in the Communications Satellite Corp.) recently won the contract to build Indonesia's first satellite ground station...
...active than other men in their prime. He conceived Hawaii Kai, a $350 million model community on 6,000 acres that will eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental agency that provided pink Jeeps (Kaiser's favorite color...
...late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...