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...into nine parcels that could bring him a total of $30 million. But some locals oppose the plan, prompting the town's landmarks commission to postpone for a month its decision on Trump's application. He has warned that if the board turns him down, he will sell the mansion to the Unification Church. The prospect of Moonies hawking flowers on the streets of Palm Beach is expected to have a powerful effect on the panel...
...extend its sway. The institute, with an enrollment of 1,850 (23% female, about 12% minority) and a faculty of 100, has a roster of 22,000 alumni that includes such celebrity chefs as Debra Ponzek of New York City's Montrachet restaurant and Dean Fearing of the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas...
...book, due in June, describes Kennedy's elaborate White House taping system. Secret Service agents put microphones in the mansion's library, presidential bedroom telephone, Oval Office and Cabinet Room. The author provides excerpts from now public transcripts of meetings during the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy's tentative behavior on the tapes of initial meetings, writes Beschloss, does "not quite bear out later claims . . . that this was a President superbly in command of the crisis from the start...
...Alexander's store chain, he will retain the Manhattan trophies he values most: the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue's Trump Tower and a valuable tract of undeveloped Hudson River waterfront. He'll also keep his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., which features a 118-room mansion and a nine-hole golf course...
...eight years as state treasurer, Richards learned the importance of courting the legislature. Unlike her recent predecessors as Governor, she has personally wooed the lawmakers, inviting them to breakfasts and lunches at the Governor's Greek-revival mansion. She talked state representative Pete Laney into releasing a lottery bill from his committee on state affairs by plying him with bagels and doughnuts. Her snow-white bouffant hairdo and folksy charm have become familiar at committee hearings, in which she often testifies. "The legislature is excited because at long last they're being paid attention to," says Richards' press secretary Bill...