Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This seemed to prove that the queen's perfume is what makes the workers cluster around her, but Simpson wanted to know what part of her is most attractively scented. So he cut a queen in three pieces-abdomen, thorax and head-and put each in a separate cage. None of the three had much effect on-a queenless cluster, but when the severed parts were crushed, the workers rallied around the crushed head. So the queen's powerful perfume must come from her head, probably from the mandibular glands...
...hotels, but the Hiltons abroad are luxury tourist hotels that are more like resorts than hostelries. Hilton has sited on some of the finest hotel locations in the world-looking up at the Parthenon in Athens, near the Diet Building in Tokyo, overlooking the Vatican in Rome and the Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily...
...guest rooms (the New York Hilton has 8,500 specially commissioned works), one of the least appreciative viewers is Conrad Hilton. "He wouldn't know a Rubens from a Ribicoff," says an aide. The decor of Casa Encantada gives the total effect of the main lounge of the Queen Mary...
...advice and usually gives in gracefully to strong opposition to his schemes. But when he thinks he is right, he is hard to turn aside. "Behind that pleasant exterior is a hard business mind," says Donald Gordon, president of the Canadian National Railways, which owns the Hilton-operated Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. "He is not belligerent, but he is tenacious...
...discreetly abetted by rivals. The Communists on Rome's city council battled Hilton for 2½ years before he got a permit; Londoners objected to the Hilton's height and its proximity to Buckingham Palace; Montreal's French Canadians fought for a French name for the Queen Elizabeth. Openings have often been ill-starred; Hong Kong's opening last month was marred by a water shortage, and the death of Pope John canceled elaborate plans for opening festivities in Rome...