Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
Some 1000 happy conservatives attended a 12-hour "Rally for God and Country" at the Statler-Hilton Hotel yesterday, and heard 13 speakers from Billy James Hargis to Ezra Taft Benson denounce internal subversion...
Later in the week, Zeckendorf retrenched still more, sold off one-third of Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel (which he owns, but which is managed by Hilton) to London Merchant Securities, Ltd., a British investment trust. He has also agreed to sell 850 acres of development land in California...