Word: rigidities
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Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall...
...colloquialism possibly growing out of the elaborate paperwork involved in South Africa's rigid control of blacks...
Albers is best known for his squares within squares, which leave his colors entirely independent of anything but the simplest form. Anuszkiewicz, now 33, keeps an equally rigid control over his work, but he allows his colors to perform in far more complex settings. In 1960, he began a series of paintings that used only two colors-a "hot" one and a "cool" one. These he placed in patterns made up of almost identical little shapes that moved from background to foreground and vice versa according to how he colored them...
...Rigid Watch. Along with iced water, Hilton has introduced some handsome profits to the natives. Puerto Rico, for example, has racked in $18 million from its share of the Caribe Hilton. The usual Hilton arrangement is for local capital-either private or government-to supply the land, the building and the furnishings; Hilton puts up the operating capital and runs the hotel. Two-thirds of the gross operating profit goes to the hotel's owners, one third to Hilton. This method enables Hilton to extend his chain rapidly without putting himself deeply into debt. He gives his local managers...
...very spread of the chain helps to pull in the guests; Hilton operates a globe-circling reservation system of 126 sales offices, which produce 25% of his room business. Each hotel keeps a rigid watch on costs and sends daily reports to Hilton headquarters, which knows within 24 hours whether a banquet in Cairo or Hong Kong made money. To tighten costs, two teams of executives surveyed 15 Hilton hotels in the U.S. last year, came up with findings that will save the chain nearly $2 million. All this has helped to bring the Hilton chain's labor bill...