Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This Christmas, for example, he and she may bestow upon themselves a $286,125 weekend at the Hyatt resort on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island. At that price, they can have the place entirely to themselves or else share it with 720 of their most intimate pals. For a couple with less time and fewer dollars but more friends, a 135-min. private performance of Circus Vargas, billed as the world's largest tented show, can be had for $47,500, popcorn and cotton candy for 5,000 guests included. For only $2,500 more, Houston...
Drummer Artimus Pyle's recent target was the Macon Hilton, which failed to Include sugar with his room-service order of iced tea. "First I demolished the louvered doors," he recalls. "I tried to throw the TV out the window, but it wouldn't fit. So I splintered everything else." He sighs: "Whew, it always feels better without that tension...
...stopped in at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel recently, exactly eight years after the Democratic National Convention. The Yippies and their banner--a Vietcong flag--were noticeably absent. In their stead was another party and another banner: the American Independent Party and its emblem, a large American eagle--made of styrofoam...
...structure of the American Independent Party. For a week they had been on the phone to Reaganites but, as a prominent conservative told me, not one Republican office-holder defected. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane--none set foot in the Hilton. 'National Review' editor William Rusher and direct-mail wizard Richard Viguerie, leaders of the coalition movement, groped around and finally found a candidate in Robert Morris, a McCarthy era witch hunter who heads a nearly defunct Texas college and came to the convention as a newspaper columnist. But Morris...
Hardly anybody noticed, but there was another presidential nominating convention last week. Arriving at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, about 700 American conservatives, many from the South and West, gathered to choose a ticket to take on Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in November...