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...world is to follow Conrad Hilton about. This is what Andy Kopkind of our Los Angeles bureau has been doing in recent weeks: interviewing his subject on planes, watching him delightedly go through the inevitable ceremonies-a "topping off" in Montreal, hotel openings in London and Rotterdam, groundbreakings in Brussels and Paris-and discovering the precarious world of the newly built. At the London Hilton, Kopkind suffered through a 15-minute elevator ride with Hilton, while the elevator stopped at 25 floors. Something had gone wrong with the mechanism, and once started in its cycle, the elevator had a mind...
Everett Martin, who wrote the cover story, also had files from correspondents in 32 places around the world to work from, so that this globe-circling hotel empire could be seen in the round. Martin himself spent the summer of 1946 working in Hilton's Palmer House in Chicago, and once mistakenly sent a letter from the girl friend of a hotel executive to one of the guests. When Hilton came through town, Martin was forbidden to touch the mail. A sound executive decision, Martin now agrees...
Formal title: "First World Conference on World Peace Through Law." Ceremonially welcomed by the King and Queen of Greece in the marble halls of the Athens Hilton were 1,000 jurists from 105 nations. The conference was the culmination of a movement launched five years ago by World-Lawman Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association, and followed a series of preparatory sessions in Costa Rica, Japan, Nigeria and Italy. Said Rhyne in his keynote address: "We share one great ideal which transcends our diversity-a belief that in the rule of law lies the route...
...grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin has won some powerful allies to help him take the cheating out of the expense account...
Near the new Athens Hilton stands an 11-ft. bronze replica of Harry S. Truman, 79, commemorating U.S. aid during Greece's Communist troubles of 1947. But some Greek critics found their latest art treasure "in bad taste...