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...open breezeway with its own cantilevered balcony. When Stone told Frank Lloyd Wright he was building a hotel without corridors, without windows and without doors, the shrewd old man opined: "Ed, sounds like you've got something there." Wright was right. El Panama (now the El Panama Hilton) has set a style for resort hotels from Hawaii to Istanbul...
...CONRAD HILTON will put up two-story, 300-room airport hotels throughout U.S. He has leased land near San Francisco International Airport, is dickering for lease in Los Angeles, has plans for New York, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Seattle...
Last week one of the most diverse citizens' groups ever assembled packed the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton in Washington to hear Harry Truman, at lunch, and Dwight Eisenhower, at dinner, kick off a bipartisan drive for a $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation. In charge was the President's special foreign aid salesman, Eric Johnston. On hand were labor leaders and dowagers, bishops and Hollywood entertainers, the Democrats' Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Dean Acheson, the Republicans' Dick
...humanly possible. Menderes adamantly refuses to delegate any authority at all. often seems to be trying to run the country singlehanded. "If the Hilton Hotel needs foreign exchange to buy toilet paper.'' says one longtime Western resident of Turkey. ''Menderes probably has to approve...
Fight for the Hilton. One luxurious casino is still to open, in the 630-room Havana Hilton Hotel, now abuilding, and New York police have documents showing that Racketeer Anastasia wanted to muscle in on Havana gambling. But if Anastasia had a yen to get control of the Havana Hilton casino, Meyer Lansky was equally set on keeping him out. A Lansky agent, Joseph Silesi, turned up among the 13 groups that went to Hilton Hotels International with bids to run the casino...