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...protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week's end Castro seized the Hotel National (managed by a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, Inc.) and the Havana Hilton, which Conrad Hilton operated for its owner, a Cuban labor union. (The rebels told Nacional Manager William Land he would have to start paying for his room.) The hotels have been losing $100,000 a month since U.S. tourists began staying away. Castro accused the American management of not doing enough...
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home...
With three new hotels already built in his mind, the world's No. 1 innkeeper, Conrad Hilton, arrived in Brazil, seemed in high good humor over his venture into what is, for his enterprises, virgin territory. On his Brazilian expedition, Hilton broke ground for hotels in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, made plans for construction of another in São Paulo. Total cost: about $21 million. A Brazilian corporation, partly financed by British interests, will build the hotels for operation by Hilton under his customary leaseback terms: a third of net profits will go to Hilton Hotels International...
Crowds overwhelmed Brasilia's meager facilities. "Nobody below the rank of ambassador, Cabinet minister or full general can be housed in the Brasilia Palace Hotel," ruled the chief of the inaugural committee, as 5,000 invited dignitaries fought for its 180 first-class rooms. Conrad Hilton, arriving to lay the cornerstone of his Brasilia Hilton, was offered a cot in the Palace Hotel barbershop. Said Deputy Neira Moreira: "I regret to report that Deputies are even drawing arms to assert their rights to dwellings...
Airlines and free reservations at such luxury hotels as the Habana Hilton. At rum-punch receptions and over dinners of Morro crab, the friendly visitor soaks up heady talk of revolution, sometimes from the "maximum leader" himself...