Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never been one to slip quietly into the night. Last week he launched a quixotic quest to prove his own career forecast wrong, announcing that he was "throwing my helmet into the ring" for the 1988 G.O.P. nomination. At his debut press conference in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a genial Haig laughed off a question about his pugnacity by saying, "Inside this exterior of militant, turf-conscious, excessively ambitious demeanor there's a heart as big as all outdoors." Later, snipping a ribbon to open his Manchester, N.H., headquarters, he cracked, "I'm used to a bayonet...
...address their chops to trumpets, in the company of Mark Branson, a high school music teacher, Mark Fessenden, a florist, and Glen Harcus, a racing-car manufacturer. On bass is Dick Burchell, a salesman, and on piano is Dan Stefanko, a music teacher. The vocalist is Dante Lupi, from Astoria, in Queens, N.Y. -- "I went to school with Tony Bennett's cousin" -- the manager < of a condominium project. In all, A String of Pearls...
...rumble," said the announcer before the stage curtain at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel rose to reveal Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler perched atop separate pedestals. Last week's midday macho matchup was strictly for exhibition, however. The pair were announcing their superhyped superfight, set for April in Las Vegas. "This is not a career for me," jabbed Leonard. "This is one fight." Shot back Hagler: "There is no one else out there for me." Both blared that they were not doing it for the money. Still, the green spoke pretty loudly too. The guaranteed...
...American Formalwear Association reports that sales, which were at $65 million in 1981, hit $100 million in 1985. The Chicago-based Gingiss International, the nation's largest formal-wear rental chain, did $500 million in tuxedo rentals last year, up 50% from 1981. At New York City's Waldorf- Astoria, 60% of last year's banqueters showed up in formal gear, up from 45% in 1981. That means, according to the hotel, that 195,000 folks showed up at the Waldorf to put on the ritz. "The intensity of private fund-raising dinners, due to Government cutbacks, has increased...
...fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...