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...every convenience the most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft. a minute), bilingual telephonists and barbers, a Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor, bedsitting rooms furnished with thick English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve it any style, with...
Though the Victoria Plaza prices its garden penthouse suite at $36 a head, it is not intended to be another Waldorf or Copacabana Palace. With Statler-style "one-room suites" costing $7.50 a day and up, the new hotel is designed for the middle-income traveler who, I.H.C. officials think, will be their biggest customer in future. As such, it is only the newest unit in Pan Am's long-range plan for increasing tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. I.H.C. already manages hotels in Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, owns and operates Mexico City...
...party materialized from their quiet "fadeaways" from everyday life. The three reporters assigned to the trip met at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, then headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
...Americans went to the polls, Englishmen had their eyes on the Buckinghamshire constituency of High Wycombe, where Disraeli three times sought election and lost. There Tories and Socialists were embroiled in a lusty campaign for the seat of Tory William Waldorf Astor, elevated to the peerage (as Viscount Astor) on his father's death...
Payoffs. After a World War II stint as a colonel in charge of buying $1 billion worth of Army supplies, Crown started spreading into other fields. He put close to $4,000,000 in cash and notes into Chicago's Palmer House and $250,000 into the Waldorf; with Realtor William Zeckendorf he bought a big tract of land on Manhattan's East Side, with the idea of putting up a big housing development. The deals paid off: the Waldorf, once deep in the red, is now well in the black; the Manhattan land, soon sold...