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...cheerful and unrepentant workaholic. In a city where the powerful can become, automatically, the beautiful people, Koch remains the homely bald guy in the shiny suit, Frank Perdue without a chicken. At first he even refused to live in the mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion, a large colonial house overlooking the East River; Koch now grudgingly spends most week nights there for convenience...
...Ambassador's hilltop residence in Managua, Nicaragua, is so imposing that it might easily be mistaken for a presidential palace or deluxe resort hotel. For decades the 20-room mansion was a fitting accessory to the role performed by a series of U.S. envoys. In those days, the American Ambassador was among the capital's top VIPS, acting as a kind of proconsul for U.S. commercial interests and as a guardian of the local status...
...white elephants go, it is like Xanadu revisited. Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach, lies dormant, its 115 rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally...
...Washington that word is being carried by three flourishing establishments: the Dolley Madison, a 44-room addition to the Madison hotel opened in 1978 to provide all the comforts "of a tastefully appointed town mansion," including bidets and well-stocked private bars; the Fairfax, a venerable Embassy Row fixture whose 165 rooms and federal-style lobby were renovated last year at a cost of some $7 million; and the red brick, 208-room Four Seasons in Georgetown, which proffers afternoon tea and, according to its brochure, a morning calm broken "only by an occasional jogging Senator...
That is also the approach being taken by the Hunt family of Texas, whose elegant 145-room mansion on Turtle Creek will open in Dallas next February; its restaurant will be managed by veterans of Manhattan's famed "21" Club. In Los Angeles the 117-suite L'Ermitage, completed in 1976 at a cost of $12 million, is drawing trade away from the Beverly Hilton and other giants, with amenities that include a Jacuzzi whirlpool filled with mineral water and free transportation around town by Rolls-Royce...