Word: hiltonization
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...Chicago-and the island's 3,435 sq. mi. offer something for everybody. The Miami-minded may wear their mink stoles in the air-conditioned lobbies of the razzle-dazzle hotels on the Condado strip, or lounge cheek by jowl beside the enormous swimming pools of the Caribe Hilton. They may gamble at La Concha and catch the Vegas-style girlie show at the Americana. They may even visit such tourist attractions as a rum distillery or the rain forest...
...TRINIDAD. In this busy, commercial island off the coast of Venezuela, the brand-new, air-conditioned Trinidad Hilton, completed last summer, can count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...
...term debts, the British had demanded that Zeckendorf sell some of Webb & Knapp's holdings. But Zeckendorf's idea of liquidation differed from his partners': though he sold some holdings, he kept right on buying others (among the purchases: $25 million for Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel). Outraged, the British sent to New York a relay of executives, who camped out in Zeckendorf's Madison Avenue offices to try to halt his acquisitions. But, in his own inimitable way, Zeckendorf confounded the British Expeditionary Force. He made his deals at breakfast, while driving...
...signs and symbols of prosperity are everywhere in Britain, crowding the past, complicating the present. Along rolling Roman roads and winding country lanes, past sleeping Norman churches and whitewashed farms, weekend traffic flows like an invading army. London's raw new office buildings jostle Georgian mansions; a Hilton hotel stares impertinently down onto Buckingham Palace. Bowling alleys and dance halls are packed each night of the week. On city rooftops, TV antennas stand as thick as the English archers at Agincourt...
...ringed in by motels-were hotels in smaller cities. But now gilded, multistoried motor hotels audaciously push into the heart of big cities. And established big-city hotels find themselves further threatened by the fancy new hotels being put up by chain hotel operators, such as the Hilton hotels now going up in San Francisco and Manhattan. "Overbuilding is our biggest problem," moans Manager Philip Weber of Los Angeles' sprawling old Ambassador. "We're building new facilities more rapidly than either travel or the population is increasing." Often builders of the new hotels agree that there are indeed...