Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost every major hotel chain in the country is being sued for making small surcharges on room bills under cryptic designations such as 1NTMS (for Internal Message Service); this week Hilton Hotels is expected to settle its part of the suit for $4,000,000. Last week seven young men won a stay of induction for all potential draftees in seven California counties until a federal court decides whether a technicality in the Selective Service law bars all inductions before...
...year because of the bribes that contractors pay the police. The records of seven of the city's top hotels showed that they have been giving the cops $60,000 worth of free meals and rooms a year. From January to May of this year the New York Hilton provided 144 meals to 80 cops for a total bill of $4,662. In the first half of 1971, the Taft Hotel supplied free rooms for cops at a cost of $2,520. Though unlawful tips to public employees are punishable by up to a year in prison...
...from where Kosygin's Ilyushin-62 set down was a far larger American Airlines 747 commercial jet that had been hijacked to Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton). The passengers, after a two-night stay, flew on to San Juan, and the 747 was also released. Then, too, the Cuban government was watching with deep interest the exploits of 19 Cuban sugar technicians who flew into New Orleans with 20 minutes' notice to the air controllers...
...Hilton. Phillips' revelations caused predictable outrage among New York cops. Even Commissioner Patrick Murphy, who has been vigorously shaking up the department and coming down hard on corrupt cops, thought that the Knapp Commission had gone too far. One "rogue cop," he objected, was smearing the entire force-and indeed Phillips had nothing to lose by telling a lurid story. But Murphy took the matter seriously enough to suspend temporarily his newly appointed chief of detectives, Albert Seedman, who had been given an $83 dinner for four on the house at the New York Hilton last March. After...
...Baseball-card collecting, still largely a kids' pastime, has recently been heavily infiltrated by serious adults. Last month 500 collectors from mid-America convened at the Detroit Hilton Hotel for the second annual Midwest Sports Collectors Convention. For two days collectors bought, sold and swapped cards portraying players as famous as Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker and as little known as Elon (Chief) Hogsett, a Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns pitcher...