Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abilene, was ending his presidency when the class of 1960 graduated from Salina High School. John Kennedy was two weeks away from the Democratic nomination. Recently, 195 members of Salina High's class of 1960 gathered from all over the nation for a reunion at Salina's Hilton Inn. They came partly out of nostalgia, but also out of curiosity-to see what the '60s had done to their classmates and their home town of 43,000 people. TIME'S William Friedman joined them and sent this report...
...bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...
Finding Money. The airlines are 'particularly active hotel builders. Inter-Continental, which is owned by Pan American World Airways, is building in Prague and Bucharest, and this month the 360-room Duna Inter-Continental opened in Budapest. Hilton International, which is owned by Trans World Airlines, this year will add four more hotels from Abu Dhabi to Zurich to its chain of 51 in 33 countries. United Air Lines plans to acquire Seattle-based Western International Hotels to form another formidable travel and lodging combine. An American Airlines subsidiary has just opened the 21-story Chosun in Seoul...
...scarcity and high cost of money in the U.S. have barely affected the overseas hotel surge. Both Hilton and Inter-Continental use local partners as sources of funds. Loew's followed that pattern in London by taking a lease on the Churchill, a luxurious hotel that opened last month. Sheraton is building a 1,200-room luxury hotel in Munich as part of an $865 million expansion program backed by the huge resources of its parent, International Telephone and Telegraph. Sheraton's 1,000-room hotel in Paris' Montparnasse, due to open in 1974, will be France...
...luxe service of the best of the older foreign-owned hotels. But traveling Americans like U.S.-style hotels for their informality, speedy checkin, reliable phone service and fast meals. Europeans, who have been accustomed to more elegance, unction and haute cuisine, also seem to fancy the same American touches. Hilton's steakhouse in Paris to which beef is flown from the U.S. -is often so crowded with French patrons that hotel guests cannot get a table...