Word: phoenicia
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...White House. That is sometimes a problem, since many of Inter-Continental's 10,000 employees in 27 foreign countries had never worn shoes or used a knife and fork until the hotel began training them. Few early guests of the Beirut Phoenicia will forget the experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe...
Airfreighted Oysters. Tourists are drawn to a land where ski resorts are only two hours from Mediterranean beaches, and by such antique monuments as Byblos and the massive stone platforms and columns of Roman Baalbek. Hotels are so jammed that the new Phoenicia Hotel, opened in 1962, is already building a 250-room annex. Restaurants serve airfreighted French oysters, Scotch salmon, Danish ham and English beef...
...days, Sweden's Major General Carl von Horn, 59, idled beside the crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
...Rome, Hilton owns no share at all. Local governments provide funds or loans and tax incentives to investor syndicates that raise capital from such sources as Swiss banks, cautious pension funds, Texas oilmen and international millionaires. Investor appetites are whetted by such success stories as Intercontinental's Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, which cost $9,500,000 when it went in business last year and is now valued at $20 million...
...Maybe in Phoenicia...