Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against a background of country and western music played by the Shannonites, Hicks interpreted her victory as a victory for "law and order" at the victory celebration Tuesday night at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. "The vote tomorrow will show that Kevin and I are close, but it will also show that the people of Boston want law and order brought back to the city," Hicks told her workers...
Itinerant buck passers, including some 4,000,000 Americans living and vacationing abroad, faced a confusing array of exchange rates. Early in the week, the London Hilton was gouging its guests $2.75 for the pound, while the American Express office in that city was gamely taking traveler's checks at the official rate of $2.42. A few rapacious landladies at London bed-and-breakfast lodgings were squeezing $3 to the pound out of gullible visitors. Tourists did not know what their dollars would be worth the next minute, or in the next country. From Canada to Japan, some merchants...
...This year New York's prostitutes seemed particularly blatant. Growing numbers of businessmen, tourists and residents have complained of being verbally and sometimes physically harassed. Earlier this year a man was murdered by hookers outside the Hilton Hotel when he shunned their advances. Another, a former West German Cabinet member, was robbed by a team of girls...
...Arab blacklist runs to some 600 corporations or individuals in 64 nations. Ford Motor Co. is on it for setting up an assembly plant in Israel despite the fact that there is another Ford subsidiary in Egypt, and Moviemaker Otto Preminger is on it for having made Exodus. But Hilton and Sheraton manage hotels in Tel Aviv as well as Cairo, and such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, SAS and TWA service both sides. Bonwit Teller, the U.S. department store, is on some boycott lists, presumably for handling Israeli fashions...
...where he set up headquarters with Sheehan in a hotel room. But it soon became obvious that the project was too big for two people. On April 22, Sheehan and Gold moved their crates of paper into a five-room suite on the eleventh floor of the New York Hilton. They were joined by a team of eight or nine Times men and women selected not only for their knowledge of Viet Nam but also their ability to keep a secret. Inquisitive colleagues were told that Hedrick Smith, a diplomatic reporter soon to be assigned to Moscow, was "off studying...