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...Even the Hilton hotels have expressed an interest in a shuttle of their own, Grossman said. "You could go up and see the earth and have a great vacation," he added...
...squabble about sovereignty, or insist on defending national interests. They worked just as willingly in London as in Paris or Rome. They dressed alike, talked alike, used the same business techniques. Their corporations had broken down the traditional barriers to a far greater extent than had European ones. The Hilton was better established than any other hotel chain, Hertz and Avis were ubiquitous, and TIME had a more diverse readership than its European rivals...
...Force Colonel Norris M. Overly, 43, told a bleaker story of the five months he spent in the "Hanoi Hilton" and other North Vietnamese camps. He and his fellow prisoners were about 30 lbs. underweight, he said, because of a thin diet of watery soup and bread. During his confinement, said Overly, each tiny cell was equipped with a loudspeaker that broadcast "endless hours of propaganda." "We were not treated as prisoners of war," Overly noted. "We were treated as criminals." Regulations posted in the cells began "The criminal will...
...days in February, and then to Peking for further talks on improving relations between the U.S. and China. He held his first press conference in four months and denounced his old tormentors as "the so-called better people." He joined in public prayer with Billy Graham at the Washington Hilton, greeted British Prime Minister Edward Heath on the White House lawn and presided over a mass swearing in of his Cabinet...
...club along with the seriousness of a newspaper. Most of the clubbiness of the place probably died in 1885, when the Crimson vacated Stoughton for the "front room, one flight up". In 1895, the paper moved once again, this time to 1304 Massachusetts Avenue, in a building known as Hilton's block. Here the paper knew luxury at last, for it rented three stories worth of space; an upper floor for the President, Managing Editor, and Sanctum, a ground floor for the Business Board, and a basement for the candidates and printing presses. This arrangement lasted six years, until...