Word: heliport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote the check, Vesco further shamed him by auctioning the draft to the crowd for $200. He bought houses in Costa Rica and Switzerland, a yacht and a Boeing 707, which he outfitted with an office, bedrooms and a discotheque. To the annoyance of his neighbors, he built a heliport on his home property in suburban New Jersey. He liked to try to get away with things. He once bought his wife a $65,000 ring and then tried to get his company to pay him a bonus to cover its cost. A would-be partner reputedly told Vesco...
...sense of mid-'60s retro time warp seems almost deliberate. The omnipresent piped-in music is a dated, Muzaky mishmash. Outside the vast white Pavilion of the Future sits the pan-European Ariane 4 rocket. There is a heliport and, of course, a monorail...