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Hell, Terkin finds, is like the Moscow subway, "only lower." It is run by a pampered army of bureaucrats, who spend their days playing dominoes and yelling at the inmates to keep out of their way. A model of Communist planning, the nether world has menus but no food, steam baths without steam, hotels without beds. There is even a magazine editor who "sweats all over" as he "puts in quotes and takes them out again and reads each page from top to bottom and from bottom to top." Says one Big Brotherly ghost: "You don't have...
...their modernity, Hilton hotels try to strike a local note in each country; regional themes and regional materials are used (often quite tastefully), and local architects and artisans are employed whenever possible. Hilton also likes to put regional foods on his menus (his chefs in Teheran dug deep into history books, say his flacks, to come up with marinated filets apadana prepared just the way Xerxes ate them in 470 B.C.). But this has to be done sparingly: the U.S. guests do not want anything too outlandish, and many of the locals think it more sophisticated to eat European cuisine...
...Orleans, etc.-but all the food is cooked in one mammoth kitchen. Hilton also saves money by purchasing its turkeys only once a year and freezing them, by having its French fries blanched with oil before they leave Idaho and by reducing the number of items on menus to just the most popular. Hilton serves 35,000 meals a day in its foreign hotels alone...
what they should put on their menus." It All Depends. Other Senators tried to pin Bobby down about just what sort and size of public facility Title II would apply to. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, the Commerce Committee's ranking Republican, wanted to know if the bill would apply to laundries and dry-cleaning establishments. Said Bobby: "I don't think they'd be covered except in very unusual circumstances -maybe if they are part of a hotel or a terminal." How about bowling alleys, pool parlors and funeral homes? He judged they would...
...world quickly became familiar with Mucha's larger-than-life posters of Bernhardt in her many roles, from Hamlet to Camille. He also designed advertisements and even menus; and when Czechoslovakia became a nation, Moravia-born Mucha designed its first stamps and bank notes...