Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Herbert Hoover was making an astonishing recovery from the gastrointestinal bleeding that brought him near death in June. He now spends some time every day at his desk in his Waldorf Towers apartment. But Hoover canceled his traditional birthday-eve press conference on doctors' orders, instead issued a written statement. "The longer I live and the more I see," it said, "the more confidence I have in the American system of constant good will and service to other nations, and of free enterprise and personal liberty. We have a great way of life-let's keep...
...been occupied by the Army during the war, was later renamed the Conrad Hilton), the world's largest hotel, and Chicago's esteemed Palmer House. The deal that gave him the greatest satisfaction and made him the nation's leading hotelman came when he made the Waldorf-Astoria a Hilton hotel...
...Medici commissioning a palace that he wanted it to be "a balcony of flowers overlooking Rome." Whenever Hilton appears at one of his hotels, the staff jumps to give him royal treatment-and sometimes stumbles. His bathtub at the New York Hilton was cracked, and at the Waldorf recently a flustered waiter forgot to serve him the ham he ordered with his eggs. In London he was delayed in a faulty elevator for 15 minutes, and in Amsterdam every spigot he turned in his room produced only boiling hot water. Yet Hilton is a gentle executive who never...
...assurance of a man who owns or controls 30% of the company's stock and a clear majority of its esprit. Actually, Hilton has had to wear down objections from his board to some of the biggest steps the company has taken, including the purchase of the Waldorf and the takeover of the Statlers. Hilton listens to the board's 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...
...Herbert Hoover, 88, condition serious, "due to anemia secondary to bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract," at home in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment; G. Frederick Reinhardt, 51, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, hospitalized in Rome with an ulcer and low blood pressure; Republican Clarence J. Brown, 67, Ohio's senior Congressman, suffering "a severe back strain," abed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 53, with mild stomach ulcers, abandoning all engagements in favor of rest and diet, at her summer residence, Fredensborg Castle...