Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Frommer and his actress wife travel, they still go by the book. Their favorite hotel in Nice is "a place where we eat breakfast in the kitchen in bathrobe and slippers. And the guests are French." Frommer's prose often pauses for such provocative asides as "Here the beds are somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead...
...person who holds the answer is Conrad Hilton-and he is bored by the subject. "You see," says Olive Wakeman, "Mr. Hilton won't face things that aren't nice." An eternal optimist, Hilton considers everything about himself and his way of life indestructible and unchanging-unless he changes it. Resting up one fine afternoon recently before a globe-girdling trip, he sat on the terrace of his enchanted house in Bel Air, a fistful of peanuts in his hand. Loudly he whistled again and again for a half-domesticated bluejay named Chairman of the Board. The bird...
...Only the Nice. To make such an enormously complicated, 24-hour a day business work, Hilton has surrounded himself with a team of crack operating people. In terms of authority, the No. 2 man in the Hilton chain is astute and ambitious Robert J. Caverly, 44, who watches over all operations. General Manager Curt Strand, 42, is the boss of the international division. Chicago Financier Henry Crown, who is worth $500 million himself and has interests in everything from General Dynamics to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, has been a close Hilton associate ever since he joined...
Time was when Western skeptics wondered whether the Sino-Soviet split was real. Khrushchev, they figured, might be relatively nice to the West only long enough to wangle some concessions on NATO or nuclear arms control; then Mao would step in and together they would demolish the free world. Today it is inconceivable that the quarrel is merely an act. In fact, there is a growing vision-shared by such disparate prophets as Arnold Toynbee and Charles de Gaulle-of Russia and the West some day standing together as allies against China. Stranger things have happened in history...
...Occasionally there is a nice wacky line (Missionary: "Do you like Bach?" Hope: "I'll drink anything"), but for the most part the picture is sheer bwanality...