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...behind the Dallas arena and Victory cleanup is Ross Perot Jr., 42, CEO of Hillwood Development Co. and son of the former presidential hopeful. Perot rammed the project through a fractious Dallas political scene, getting the EPA and Texas regulators onboard even before taxpayers in 1998 approved (by just 1,642 votes out of 125,000) a tourist tax to raise $125 million for the planned $225 million arena. The price tag soared to $420 million thanks to such amenities as recessed lighting, terrazzo mosaic floors, barbecue grills and ramps graded for easy elephant access. "We got carried away," Perot...
After a 95-minute meeting withFord and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office, the Shah was the guest of honor, with Empress Farah, at a luncheon given by Kissinger and his wife Nancy. The site of the feast was Hillwood, the verdant 25-acre estate bequeathed to the Government by the late Marjorie Merriweather Post. A huge green-and-white-striped tent was hung with May baskets filled with tulips. Inside, guests lunched on gazpacho, filet of beef, and lime sherbet heaped with fresh strawberries. The Robert Mc-Namaras, the William F. Buckleys, the David Brinkleys...
...fall and spring the entourage moved to Hillwood, the Georgian mansion on Mrs. Post's 24-acre estate in Washington, D.C. With ambassadors and heads of state as her guests, the style was more elaborate. Liveried servants served formal dinners on vermeil plates originally cast for Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Guests could view the most extensive collection of Czarist icons and jewelry outside the Soviet Union, the result of a Post buying spree in Moscow with her third husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post's pet schnauzer slept in a bed once used...
...father once said that if I were cast ashore on a desert island I'd organize the grains of sand," Mrs. Post told friends. With that same gift for organization, she prepared carefully for the future of her estates. Hillwood and its treasures have been willed to the Smithsonian Institution. Topridge will be used by seminars of C.W. Post College, while the Palm Beach property has been donated to the Federal Government for use by foreign dignitaries. None of the storied retreats will belong in the future to any single individual, which perhaps is just as well...
Bears & Bulls. Home base for Mrs. Post's constant flurry of house parties and charity benefits is Washington's Hillwood, a 22-room Georgian mansion set on 24 acres overlooking Rock Creek Park. Invitations to Hillwood are only slightly less sought after than those to the White House. The house, already bequeathed to the Smithsonian, is furnished with Gobelin tapestries and Louis XVI furniture (including chairs made for Marie Antoinette). It is surrounded by a garden with plants from Buckingham Palace and Mount Vernon. In the French Regency dining room, guests-including Cabinet Ministers and royalty-eat from...
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