Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When we were kids, our favorite books were about a guy named Chip Hilton. We took it for granted that Chip never really existed. In high school, Chip was a star in three sports: football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and baseball in the spring. In college, it was more of the same. But, of course, Chip Hilton was a fictional character. Right...
...after day, Banisadr and Ghotbzadeh promised that the meeting between commissioners and hostages would take place, but nothing happened. On Wednesday evening, the commissioners announced that unless a meeting could be arranged soon, they would have to head home. Ghotbzadeh rushed to the Tehran Hilton from a midnight session of the Revolutionary Council, saying he would soon tell the commissioners the time for the proposed meeting with the hostages. Once again, nothing happened. Next morning, as the commissioners were packing their bags for their return flight to New York, Ghotbzadeh invited them to the Foreign Ministry to discuss "important...
...outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...
Other operational sites were lined up: hotel suites at the Hilton Inn and the International Hotel, both at New York's Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would...
...mammoth Washington Hilton ballroom, Rex Humbard, 60, and his family tape their down-home variety show of song and gospel patter for his 236 TV outlets in the U.S. and 414 in other nations. The set: a rotating stage carpeted in black velvet with a ramp bordered by flashing lights...