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...scene at Rappoport headquarters in the Belevedere room of the Back Bay Hilton was one of hushed and nervous anticipation of the results of this maverick candidate’s months of efforts to be the lieutenant governor—despite Romney’s best efforts...
...April 30, General Motors Corp. Chairman John Smith stood on a stage in the posh ballroom of the Seoul Hilton Hotel, waiting to announce a long-sought deal to acquire South Korea's bankrupt Daewoo Motor Co. GM, the biggest automaker in the world, planned to celebrate in style: a signing ceremony with 150 guests, a screening of a specially made video called Infinite Possibilities, and a champagne reception for such dignitaries as the U.S. ambassador to Korea. But before the festivities could begin, the doors to the ballroom burst open and in rushed 70 angry members of the Daewoo...
...DIED. COLONEL FLOYD JAMES THOMPSON, 69, the longest-held American prisoner of war in Vietnam, who was captive from 1964 to 1973; in Key West, Florida. Imprisoned in the notorious Hanoi Hilton, Thompson was beaten with bamboo sticks, suspended by his thumbs and escaped five times, only to be recaptured. He was held for 3,278 days...
...previous seasons. With the departure of Saint Laurent, Valentino became the last couturier of his generation to design in his own name. The collection he showed clearly demonstrated why, despite his years, he's still the designer of choice for the junior socialite set, many of whom - the Hilton sisters, Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece - joined him for dinner and dancing in his Place Vend?me studio afterward. Also present: the consummate Hollywood clotheshorse Gwyneth Paltrow, to better impress Valentino's new owners from Marzotto, including Michele Norsa, the man in charge of the group's fashion brands. At Chanel, Karl...
...where Christia Murdaugh froze her eggs back in 1997, has all but dropped out of the field. Of 30 patients, only two delivered healthy babies. A third had a miscarriage, and the other 27 never got pregnant at all. "There is a lot of hype about this," says Dr. Hilton Kort, co-founder of the clinic...