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These are not idle fears, but U.S. nuclear authorities have not been idle about them either. For five years the Atomic Energy Commission has anxiously been pushing a project code-named Vela-Hotel, designed to detect nuclear explosions in space. Last week the Hotelmen delivered their first package of special instruments. Before the end of 1963, similar instrument packages are scheduled to take the long rocket-ride into space on Air Force-launched satellites...
Last of Its Kind? The rush for rooms with a view abroad is a godsend for the big U.S. hotelmen, since business at home is not what it used to be. Speedy jets have made it possible for businessmen to fly into a city and out again swiftly, transacting all their business in one day. Families traveling by car have long since bypassed downtown hotels for motels and plush motor hotels. Hotel occupancy rates have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year...
...hotel business. When Puerto Rico decided in 1947 that it needed a first-class hotel to help lure U.S. businessmen to set up shop there, Teodoro Moscoso, chief of the Puerto Rico Development Corp. (and now the director of the Alliance for Progress), fired off letters to leading U.S. hotelmen inviting them to come down. Only Hilton answered promptly, with a warm, friendly letter that began by greeting the Spanish-speaking Moscoso as "Mi estimado amigo." After that, Hilton had no difficulty signing a partnership deal with Puerto Rico to build the Caribe Hilton, now one of the most popular...
...proprietor argues that "white people just aren't going to bowl with colored people-they don't want to use a ball that Negroes have been using." John Carswell, a Chapel Hill drugstore owner, contends that desegregation of his lunch counter would cause "incidents," and many Southern hotelmen profess to fear that if they admitted Negroes, their white trade would go to competitors...
Price Wars. Sonnabend is worried about the developing price war among hotelmen who have started offering special family rates, tourist class rooms, and discounts on rooms to big corporate users and conventions. Says Sonnabend: "We seem to have forgotten the expensive lesson of the Great Depression, when we discovered that the total market for hotel rooms is rather inflexible and that cutting prices really did not help...