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...world is to follow Conrad Hilton about. This is what Andy Kopkind of our Los Angeles bureau has been doing in recent weeks: interviewing his subject on planes, watching him delightedly go through the inevitable ceremonies-a "topping off" in Montreal, hotel openings in London and Rotterdam, groundbreakings in Brussels and Paris-and discovering the precarious world of the newly built. At the London Hilton, Kopkind suffered through a 15-minute elevator ride with Hilton, while the elevator stopped at 25 floors. Something had gone wrong with the mechanism, and once started in its cycle, the elevator had a mind...
...76th year, a full decade after most businessmen retire, Hilton is busy spotting the world with hotels wherever the U.S. tourist and businessman alight, girding the globe with new links in the longest hotel chain ever made. Already this year, Hilton has opened new hotels in Teheran, London, Athens, Rotterdam, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Portland, Ore. Under construction are two new Hiltons in Paris, one at Montreal airport, and others in Brussels, Honolulu, Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Rabat, Mayagüez, Tunis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Cura...
...even astonished-by the world around him. He cannot get over the speed of jet planes or his possession of a $100 Texas-style Stetson, whose price he mentions to anyone who will listen. He is susceptible to even the most transparent flattery. "You know," he says, "after the Rotterdam opening, the president of the corporation that owns the hotel came up to me and said, 'Your dance was the greatest thing that happened here.' That touched me most." When something impresses him, he often slaps his knee and exclaims: "By golly...
...below, as well as the sky above, was crowded with tourists. Since 1957, the last year before jets went into transatlantic service, ships have experienced a worrisome 25% decline in passengers. But reservations are now running about 6% ahead of last year, and such luxury liners as the France, Rotterdam and Cristoforo Colombo are booked solidly through mid-September. For the first time in five years, the ship lines expect to break the 1,000,000-passenger mark...
Angry Response. At the beginning of the war, writes Rumpf, bombing was carefully limited. Germany, it is true, stunned the world by bombing Warsaw and Rotterdam; but these raids were arguably part of a military attack. Hitler feared all-out air warfare because he lacked an effective long-range bomber. When Germany launched its great offensive through the Low Countries in 1940, Britain was the first to start bombing industrial targets. Not until five months after the first British raid, writes Rumpf, did Germany retaliate with the blitz of Britain...