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...hullabaloo about Ford. Shortly after CBS's Dan Rather announced knowingly that the deal had been struck, the notion of a different dream ticket entered Carter's mind. The president immediately picked up a phone and ordered the operator to get him Jerry Ford at the Detroit Plaza Hotel. "I'm going to get him first," Carter told his wife...
...officials and the community's white business executives, who rarely live within the city limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...redevelopment of the waterfront area has been economically successful, although critics differ over its aesthetic appeal. The main cluster of new buildings is the $350 million Renaissance Center, consisting of five glass towers containing office space and topped by the spectacular Detroit Plaza Hotel. The center has helped the city raise its convention revenues from $56 million in 1970 to a projected $115 million this year. More than 90% of the center's office space is rented. Although the complex looks a bit like a mother ship from Star Wars?or perhaps because of the fact?visitors flock...
...notoriously clumsy at firing subordinates. Two weeks ago, he sent cigar-chomping Hollywood Lawyer Milton Rudin to Pfeiffer's porticoed house in an exclusive, guarded section of Greenwich, Conn. Rudin reportedly made it clear that Pfeiffer was finished. The following Monday, Silverman called Pfeiffer into his Rockefeller Plaza office and told her that she would have to resign. Yet she apparently left thinking there was still some room for negotiation. Then, when she learned that her resignation had been requested, she turned livid and picked up the phone...
Houston, the epitome of urban sprawl, is now building in the center of town as well as the outskirts. Three magnificent monuments to this new financial capital are now rising: the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, the 55-story First International Plaza and the 50-story Three Allen Center. In Chicago the demand for downtown office space is so great that speculative builders are going ahead and putting up new structures without even bothering to line up tenants first...