Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekly Observer said that the BBC maintained an MI5 liaison office, now under the guidance of Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, an ex-army intelligence specialist, and that MI5 spied on some BBC staff members, collected information about employee political views, and too often got things wrong. Reporter Isabel Hilton allegedly was refused a job in 1976 because investigators had confused an apolitical group to which she belonged with a leftist organization...
These things change, of course. Not a month ago, Karen Hilton, a director of New York's Wilhelmina model agency, was talking about her newest and ritziest signing. Princess Stephanie of Monaco, she said, "has the look that is in, a little boyish but sexy." Now, she insists, "people are just looking for something to say about her because she's a princess. She never struck me as boyish." It appears that the princess, like a new imported automobile, is undergoing some last-minute modification for domestic consumption...
...truth is always much simpler," she said. "The Prince has never said what he thought of her modeling, and he won't make any comment now. The princess is still recuperating (from a bout of intestinal flu). She's been modeling since February, and she was just overtired." Hilton says that Stephanie is "on a little vacation with her father, and she's supposed to return to Paris in a week. Then I'll talk to her about rescheduling...
...emergency assistance. The 105-member South Dakota legislature voted itself a special $95,000 appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin echoed their constituents with a demonstration of their own in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Harkin had 250 white crosses planted to represent...
...message was clear. "Canada is open for business again," said Brian Mulroney. His audience, 1,450 U.S. executives and their guests at an Economic Club of New York dinner in Manhattan's Hilton Hotel, evidently liked what they heard: they gave Canada's new Prime Minister two standing ovations. Mulroney, 45, vowed that his government would be "there to assist and not to harass the private sector in creating new wealth and the new jobs that Canada needs...