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...Ataturk's campaign of liberation from the Ottoman pashas and their Western allies. In the southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey, the U.S.'s firm NATO ally, but it scarcely concealed the country's troubles...
...with landing strips big enough for private planes-have opened farther down the coast. Most ambitious is the 60-suite, $1,000,000 Hotel Cabo San Lucas, near the village of the same name, whose stockholders include such enthusiasts as Kirk Douglas, Airplane Maker Donald Douglas Sr. and Barren Hilton, son of Hotelman Conrad. Heretofore, the only way an ordinary traveler could get to lower Baja has been by commercial flight or road from Los Angeles to San Diego, where he had to cross the border to Tijuana, then take a three-flights-a-week plane...
...this and other satiric bits ricocheted through a Statler Hilton dining room, John Kennedy's smile seemed wan. Like any President, Kennedy is sensitive to kidding, and at their annual Gridiron Club dinner, Washington newsmen ribbed him, his policies and his family mercilessly. But when the President arose for his own five-minute speech, he showed that he could dish it out as well as take...
...comet burned low in 1950, he went back to architecture in partnership with a gifted Illinois classmate, Los Angeles Architect William L. Pereira. The two built a substantial list of clients, designed the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, the U.S. military bases in Spain, the Berlin Hilton hotel and CBS's Television City in Hollywood. Most of the architecture was frankly Pereira. Luckman wanted to grow bigger and bigger; Pereira wanted to stay small so that he could personally watch over every project from beginning to end. Each got his wish four years ago, when Luckman...
Feature of the well-appointed hotel room is closed-circuit television. At Manhattan's Statler Hilton, guests jaded with westerns and private-eye shows can now watch Telad Corp.'s repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include...