Word: hiltonization
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...Club announced that they are discussing "the possibility of developing a closer relationship." The relationship -whether worked through merger or outright purchase-is clearly aimed at stepping up Chase Manhattan's competition with First National City Bank, the second largest U.S. bank, which bought up half of Hilton's Carte Blanche in September. This week, after a two-month advertising barrage, Pittsburgh's two largest banks-the Mellon National and the Pittsburgh National-will expand their longtime competition to a new dimension by bringing out their own credit cards...
...million on everything from lettered T shirts ("Long live the O.A.U.!") to his celebrated "Project 600," the conference-headquarters complex itself. Dominating it all was a twelve-story structure built to Nkrumah's taste-the luxurious bulletproof, bomb-resistant VIP hotel, known to local wags as "the Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that Africa, mourning for her enslaved children still under oppression, will look for comfort...
...supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even fed the peasants' livestock and rebuilt their pens. They have built schools and paved over the long-unused Saigon-Hué railroad to make the only road in the Danang area that is passable during the monsoons. Result: for the first time...
...Young Democrats are holding their National Convention in New York next week. For five days the junior-grade politicians will rush around the lobbies and suites of the Statler Hilton vying for executive positions and confirming their obvious and implicit support of the National Democratic Party...
Conrad's Comrade. The "Citibank," as moneymen call it, last week dealt into another fast-growing business: credit cards. For $12 million, it will buy control of Hilton Hotels' profitable Carte Blanche, which bills $90 million a year. In a complex pact, Hilton and Citibank each will own half of Carte Blanche, but the bank will hold all the voting stock. Hilton figures that Citi bank's worldwide outlets will help Carte Blanche trump the two leaders in the field, American Express and Diners' Club. Moreover, Citibank is strong in the eastern U.S., and Carte Blanche...