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Compared with an annual fee of $35 for the green version and $50 for the gold, the new platinum card will cost a plush $250 when it is offered this summer to some 500,000 of Amex's best customers. To qualify, users must have run up charges of at least $10,000 during the past year, and must have a record of prompt payment. Those eligible for a platinum card will receive services unavailable to other American Express customers. They will be able to tap 1,200 automatic tellers around the U.S. for cash advances...
Shoe Shop Owner David Rivera, 35, and his wife Irma, 33, were the first to settle into the new project, genteelly christened Charlotte Gardens. Proudly showing off his fully equipped three-bedroom house with its cathedral ceilings, plush carpeting and small backyard, David notes, "This is a hell of a deal compared with the hellhole we lived in before." The Riveras jumped at the chance to desert their often heatless $400-a-month rental apartment near by. They took possession of their new $47,000 home with an initial $7,500, and will pay a mortgage of $370 a month...
...Allen E. Paulson, 61, founder of Gulfstream Aerospace, the maker of plush corporate jets. As an Iowa farm boy growing up in the Depression, Paulson supported himself by selling newspapers and cleaning hotel bathrooms. Following high school, he went to work for TWA as a mechanic and moonlighted at an auto-repair garage. After selling surplus airplane parts and advising competing airlines and then TWA on engine design, Paulson in 1951 set up his own business converting surplus passenger planes into cargo aircraft. It grew, and by 1978 he was ready to begin building airplanes on his own. He acquired...
...students, whom he had invited to the White House, along with some of the troops who had helped them get off the chaotic island, Reagan criticized those who "belittled the danger that you were in." The President added: "It is very easy for some know-it-all in a plush protected quarter to say that you were hi no danger. I have wondered how many of them would have changed places with you." The students' cheers rolled across the South Lawn...
...Boston's newest medical building on Emerson Place last week, they were settling into plush offices with the name "International Federation for Internal Freedom." They sounded as euphoric as any of their subjects under the influence of psilocybin, their favorite "consciousness-expanding" drug. Said Leary: "This is much more important than Harvard...