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Fresh off a Greyhound bus in Atlanta, Kelly lodged six months with a "crazy pimp" he'd met on the street. "Whores, drag queens would give me their money to hold for them," he said. "People liked me." In Atlanta he decorated Yves Saint Laurent windows for free. ("He was my hero. I tried to do them just the way Mr. Saint Laurent would have wanted them.") A job sorting clothes for Amvets gave Kelly access to discarded Chanel suits and old beaded gowns. Soon he had his own antique-clothing boutique. When ends didn't meet...
...board demanded a feasibility study of Arcata's proposal in three weeks. "That was war," recalls Gearheart. Such studies normally cost thousands of dollars and take months to produce. But three weeks later, after Gearheart wrote and volunteers made copies all night long at city hall, a Greyhound bus $ took the study away at dawn. The board promptly rejected it. Allen, Gearheart and Councilman Hauser spent nearly two years flying to regional meetings to counter further state objections while they appealed. Finally, the city, through some adroit politicking, won permission from state officials for a pilot project...
Meantime, Eastern's competitors had a field day poaching on the crippled airline's territory. TWA, Delta and Pan Am added flights on Eastern routes to capture its customers. Even Amtrak and Greyhound expanded their service to meet the new demand. TWA Chairman Carl Icahn confirmed that Eastern's unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment...
...apocryphal story has it that when professors planning to move to Washington for the Dukakis Administration line up for the ride, the Greyhound bus they expected will be replaced by a jeep, and a small one at that...
...Dukakis should win," says Carnesale, the K-School's academic dean, "when a little Jeep leaves carrying people to Washington for the Dukakis administration, there will be a lot of professors standing around because they thought there would be a Greyhound...