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...food is wretched, the beds are lumpy and the place has no central heating. But to Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...institution of the free press. For the first four years of his administration, relations between government and press were good. Shortly after the 1954 elections the opposition press became bitingly critical, and the administration began to strike back. Sweeping Menderes-backed laws can check a newsman into the "Ankara Hilton" for any story that lessens the public's regard for the Premier or his administration...
Later that afternoon Stewart's wife Mary Ann drove him to the airport. "He was jittery," she recalls. "He kept wondering what had gone wrong." While sitting in his room in Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel that evening, waiting for Rogers to call, Stewart flicked on the TV set and heard, for the first time, that Associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton was retiring from the Supreme Court. "I said to myself, 'My golly, I wonder whether this...
...this furor worried Sheraton Corp. of America, second biggest U.S. hotel chain. It announced that it would offer to its 850,000 cardholders, who got their cards for nothing, a new comprehensive card for $5. Hilton Hotels Corp., biggest U.S. chain, broke into a sweat; fearing the Sheraton competition, Hilton announced that it would expand the Hilton card, which is used in its 33 hotels in the U.S. and abroad, to cover outside restaurants and shops...
...CREDIT CARD for restaurants, shops, car rental, etc., round the world is planned by Hilton Hotels. Corporation already has 1,000,000 holders of credit cards used in Hilton's 33 hotels alone, last year did $60 million business with them...