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Giant scrapers last week clawed at a Los Angeles hilltop where a 500-room Sheraton hotel will soon rise. Half a world away, turbaned Moslems naked to the waist poured concrete foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan...
...Also: Hilton Cheong Lean of Hong Kong, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Hong Kong: Rafael do Tagle of the Philippines, business editor of the Manilla Chronicle: and Yoshiyuki Tsurumal of Japan, program officer of the International House of Japan. The talk will be at p.m. in Burr...
...conference concentrated on such grand and general topics as what schools should teach and what were the nation's educational goals. More pragmatic in nature were the 18 themes-ranging from dropouts to teacher training-discussed this year during the sectional meetings held at Washington's Statler-Hilton. Underlying them all was an issue scarcely discussed a decade ago: how to equalize the educational opportunity of the Negro...
...Kastor, Hilton's ads, the Government had charged, featured a "doctored" laboratory report that cited false weight losses, used as "before" and "after" examples TV models who had crash-dieted away pounds supposedly pared off by Regimen. The agency ignored Federal Trade Commission complaints that Regimen, which sold at $3 and $5 for a box that cost as little as 300 to make, was ineffective as a weight reducer without dieting...
...Kastor, Hilton protested that the decision "thrusts upon advertising agencies new and costly responsibilities," announced that it would appeal the verdict. Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel Inc., spoke for many admen when he said that ad agencies "don't consider our chore to be policemen" over their clients' claims. Norman also said, however, that "there is no defense for this kind of advertising," added that it "is simply not true" that most clients want to deceive the public...