Word: hiltonization
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Suntanned, swim-suited tourists from New York, who can fly to San Juan for $45, clack in their clogs through the lobbies of the Caribe Hilton and the new San Juan Intercontinental hotels. Twenty miles west of the capital, richer visitors will soon be able to loaf at Laurance Rockefeller's Dorado Beach Hotel, now abuilding, and golf under Pro Ed Dudley at the Robert Trent Jones course. "There is a great atmosphere of construction, vitality, change," says Roger Baldwin, who advises Puerto Rico on civil liberties, "and a great sense of leadership...
Equally flexibly, Fomento, unable in 1946 to find a capitalist to build a hotel, put up the pattern-setting Caribe Hilton with its own $5,000,000, brought U.S. Hotelman Conrad Hilton in to run it. Hilton made $1,000,000 the first year, was encouraged to go ahead with what is now his worldwide chain...
...Pass in the Brooks Range, and to Chukwuktoligamut near the Bering Sea. In the heartland city of Fairbanks (pop. 11,000), fourteen hundred 4-H Club members relieved their mothers of that wintered-in, cabin-fever feeling by piling outside and scurrying to register for their summer activities. Bud Hilton's Thawing Service advertised steam-cleaning service for building exteriors, while out on the Alcan Highway, dust warnings replaced ice-warning signs. On the Fairbanks outskirts moose calves, abandoned by their mothers, bawled like babies, and into a downtown pool hall waddled a full-grown porcupine...
...HILTON N. RAHN...
...Havana, which Castro must crack to win Cuba, every available police prowl car roamed the streets, and few citizens ventured out after dark. The 630-room Habana Hilton, opened with fanfare last month, had just 44 guests. General Pilar Garcia, Havana's tough new police chief, rounded up suspected rebel sympathizers by the dozens, while hundreds more went into hiding at the homes of friends and relatives...