Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
Officials moved the reception and dinner to the Hilton Hotel, where the defense secretary was staying...
Many hotels and restaurants are not waiting for the law to prod them into accommodating nonsmokers. The Atlanta Marriott Marquis reserves three floors of rooms for abstainers, the Las Vegas Hilton one floor, with two more planned for later this year. Last month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays...
Later that afternoon, while he is waiting for his room at the Flamingo Hilton, Donald Persson deposits three quarters into a slot machine, one of the largest bets of his life, and pulls the lever. The wheels fall into place, and the coins start firing rat-a-tat into the metal change bucket. Persson takes a seat, drops three more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs...
...Hilton '87, the club's third founder, said the Slavic Society plans to sponsor informal events including movies, weekly teas with faculty guests, and Russian song sessions, he said. "Some of the best minds are working on Russian Studies at Harvard and there was no undergraduate organization to follow up on this enthusiasm," Kearney added...