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Secret Sessions. The euphoria of the chiefs extended over a mile-square area around Cairo's glass-walled Nile Hilton hotel. Each Arab nation got a half-floor to itself-24 double rooms, plus a three-room corner suite overlooking the Nile and the gardens of Gezira island. Even Nasser moved into the hotel. Egyptian army engineers broke through the walls of both the Hilton and the Arab League Headquarters building, 100 yards distant, and linked the two with a temporary esplanade carpeted in vivid green. Some 2,000 soldiers and police provided security, and traffic, forced to detour...
...other major foreign projects on hand, ranging from a harbor in India to power plants in Buenos Aires. In the postwar period, the firm has completed $200 million worth of foreign construction, including India's first big steel plant, an imperial palace near Teheran and Athens' new Hilton hotel...
Public Share. Like most of Mexico's got-rich-quick tycoons, Trouyet has close ties with the country's ex-Presidents, particularly Multimillionaire Miguel Alemán, who has a large stake in Mexico City's Continental Hilton hotel, of which Trouyet is chairman. But Trouyet differs from the usual run of Mexican businessmen in two important ways. He does not complain about the government's growing ownership of Mexican business, and he has done more than anyone to encourage public share-ownership in a country where tightly held family businesses are the rule. With...
...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms...
...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...