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Jetting through a hotel construction boom that has spread to most parts of the earth, Tabler has designed 35 hotels that cost $314 million, has 49 more projects abuilding or on the drawing boards in his penthouse office in Manhattan's Statler Hilton. Having signed up last month to design another $50 million worth, he flew off last week on an eleven-day inspection of work in progress in Los Angeles, London, Nairobi and Johannesburg...
...placed the lights just inside the elevator cars, where they show as the doors open. By installing towel hooks next to the wash basins, he encouraged customers to make do with one towel (instead of the usual four), thus has saved $7,000 a year for the Hartford Statler. The Tabler-designed combination basin and vanity table has become a standard item in many hotels, helped to reduce the size of the average bathroom...
...earlier conference concentrated on such grand and general topics as what schools should teach and what were the nation's educational goals. More pragmatic in nature were the 18 themes-ranging from dropouts to teacher training-discussed this year during the sectional meetings held at Washington's Statler-Hilton. Underlying them all was an issue scarcely discussed a decade ago: how to equalize the educational opportunity of the Negro...
...right impression, L. & M. employs 130 people, including psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. At the top are easygoing Chairman J. (for Joshua) Gordon Lippincott, 56, onetime product-development teacher at Brooklyn's design-oriented Pratt Institute, and courtly, French-born President Walter Pierre Margulies, 51, onetime chief designer for Statler Hotels. Says Margulies: "Designers in general have too high a taste level. Our aim is to speak the language of the consumer...
...programs. Next, Humphrey was off to the Hill to preside over the opening of the day's Senate session ("You keep hearing people say that presiding over the Senate is a dull job. Why, I enjoy that"), then to speak to a meeting of students, next to the Statler Hilton to address a luncheon of the Advertising Federation of America, back to his office for an afternoon of paper work, and finally into bib and tucker for the White House dinner at which he was one of the honored guests...