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SUNDANCE and Butch labor in the barren vineyards of fin de siecle West. It's 1898 and times are changing. Townspeople have traded in their shooting irons for vests and gold watch chains, the Spanish-American War has begun, and the bicycle appears in a cameo role as the supplanter of the horse. (Mercifully, the automobile doesn't appear; it would have been too poignant.) Outlawing has meanwhile become a depressed industry. A railroad baron hires bounty hunters to drive Butch and Sundance out of business. Butch is willing to be bought out, but not rubbed out. So there ensues...
...born in Sicily, fled his home to escape killing for the Organization. He and his older brother made their way to America in the early twenties seeking a new start. They soon learned that America's promise of equality and justice was as barren as the soil from which they fled. It was only when he became powerful-it did not matter how, the Don discovered-that he was respected and feared by the Wasps and the Irish, the country's dominant groups...
Advisory Role. Today, the relation ship between father and son has changed. Barren, now 41, is not only president and chief executive of Hilton Hotels (at $100,000 a year), but has considerably widened his father's footsteps since he took charge three years ago. The elder Hilton, who, at 81, remains chairman of the board but contents himself with an advisory role, is delighted with his son's performance. "Things are going very well with us," he says...
...anything, that is an understatement. Through a combination of cost cutting, rate in creases and shrewdly timed expansion, Barren has managed to double the company's profits from $6.6 million in 1966 to $12.2 million last year. In the same period, revenues rose only 18% to $231 million. The chain, which owns, manages or fran chises 67 hotels and inns in 56 U.S. cities, currently has an oc cupancy rate 10% above the industry-wide average of 61%. More remarkable, that occupancy level has been reached despite a 21% advance in Hilton's average room rate from...
Setting Records. Barron came back to the family business by a roundabout route. When his father rebuffed his first effort to land a well-paying Hilton job, the young man began selling fresh fruit juice to Los Angeles dairies. The venture prospered and helped pave Barren's way into the family firm...