Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When one of our group asked his guide about a nondescript gray building next to a children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed...
...sensed, and as many Tunisian intellectuals complained, the people seem to be becoming increasingly materialistic. Those who can afford it hold lavish weddings at hotels like the Tunis Hilton, and ride Peugeots and Mercedes. Men with more modest resources practice other forms of conspicuous consumption, like wearing overpriced French clothes, usually unspeakably tight bell-bottoms and even tighter, half-buttoned shirts...
...Crimson kept its lead as Peter Hilton put a 35-yard penalty kick clean through the uprights, to make...
...week's summit, however, took place without a hitch in security. The Kings, Sheiks, Emirs, Presidents and other chieftains (or their stand-ins) from 59 nations, plus leaders of the P.L.O. and several African liberation groups, were quartered in the city's main hotels. From the Nile Hilton, they could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded the Hilton's roof and stairways. In short, the delegates were protected from everything, suggested a local...
...novels were first published in Poland in 1971, but one is set in the Rocky Mountains, and the other starts in the Costa Rica Hilton and moves to Manhattan. Lem is an Eastern European but his mind wanders in an American technological wilderness, and the paranoia he evokes is at home under the shadow of the Science Center. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub starts where a comfortable narrative would already be well into the body of its tale. The narrator is in some indefinite Pentagon Three, buried deep within the Rocky Mountains. Pentagon Three, with thousands of offices, miles...