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...What is the point of "getting away" if we must carry all of our paraphernalia with us to insulate ourselves from a new environment [July 2]? Like the American tour ists who asked the hotel clerk whether they were in the Paris or the Madrid Hilton, campers may soon be asking each other if this is Nettles Island or Camperland...
Gurney also surprised Dean on a minor confusion about the hotel in which he had discussed hush funds with Nixon's attorney Kalmbach. Was it Washington's Mayflower Hotel, as he had testified, even though Kalmbach had been registered on that date at the Statler Hilton? After some sparring, Dean, prompted by his lawyer, said that he often confused the two and could have been mistaken, since the Statler Hilton's coffee shop is called the Mayflower...
...thee." All were moved when a tiny flag was carried into the tent and placed in a position of honor on the stage. Laboriously made from threads plucked from prisoners' uniforms, the flag had been flown at night by men confined in the prison called the Hanoi Hilton...
...Kullagerfabriken (S.K.F.); Jacques G. Maisonrouge, IBM World Trade; Sir Arthur Norman, The De la Rue Co.; Dr. Aurelio Peccei, Olivetti; Count Theo Rossi Di Montelera, Martini & Rossi; Evelyn de Rothschild, N.M. Rothschild & Sons; Dermot A. Ryan, Ryan's Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...
...August 1967, the torturing of prisoners in Kasler's building began in earnest (he had been moved from the Hanoi Hilton to another prison in the capital, "the Zoo-that's what it reminded us of"). The Vietnamese had discovered that the Americans were communicating with each other by tapping on the concrete walls, and wanted to know who was guilty. Kasler certainly was. With the prisoners' special tap code, he said, he "could send a message through five rooms and get an answer back in ten minutes. We really got pretty fast at it." The price...