Word: connely
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United Parcel, with headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., has spent a year testing 10 natural gas-fuel trucks in Brooklyn, N.Y. Reduction of smog-causing gases has been so effective in those vehicles that the company is preparing to make sample conversions by early 1991 in its 600-vehicle fleet in Manhattan. They will come none too soon; New York City has the second worst air in the U.S., after Los Angeles...
Much of the money covers the upkeep on his three Pharaonic homes. The annual maintenance for Trump's 45-room spread in Greenwich, Conn., comes to an estimated $400,000. His Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., costs about $1 million a year to run. His allowance will also have to cover $650,000 in annual support payments for his estranged wife Ivana and their three children. Exempted from the budget is Trump's fancy transportation, which is up for sale: his $30 million yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess (he says he wants $115 million...
Windy conditions again created victims. Among them were Trinity College of Hartford, Conn., whose coxless four hit a boom and stopped rowing in the Visitors' Cup, and was eventually beaten by three lengths by University of London "B" crew...
Pretty heady stuff for someone who in his New Haven, Conn., school was always the smallest, least noticed kid in the class. "I was a lousy athlete, not coordinated and socially pretty shy," MacCready says. To compensate, he turned to solitary hobbies, largely involving flying creatures and flight. He collected butterflies and moths, began assembling model airplanes from kits and soon was designing his own autogyros, helicopters and ornithopters. At 15, he was already winning national model-airplane contests. "At the time I wished that I could be a football hero and a smooth character," he says...
Then came the trip to the States to visit his brother, Tony, in Guilford, Conn. The trip was the starting point of the rest of his life--literally. After spending the summer painting houses ("As all high school students do," Knight says), Knight's uncle--his mother's brother--and his aunt invited him to stay with their family in Connecticut...