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Curley's ghost must have had its Irish up last month when Boston's posh Copley Plaza Hotel ordered its maids to turn in their sloppy mops and go back to cleaning bathroom floors by hand. Outraged maids filed a labor grievance and threatened a walkout. Last week, under pressure from the hotel workers and other unions as well as the National Organization for Women, the Copley backed down...
...best of times, is divided over what steps should be taken to achieve that goal. Some are advocating a boycott of any government-sponsored elections. Three trade unions have called for a general strike to begin this week. Many Haitians, even staunch nationalists in the slums and the posh capital suburbs, are calling for foreign intervention of some sort. A few are counseling insurrection. Says Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, a firebrand priest popular with the poor: "There is only one avenue to take, and that is revolution...
About the only taste of life's grittiness that the wealthy residents of Beverly Hills have ever known was the time a bum showed up at the posh home of a local manufacturing executive. And that was just a movie, Down and Out in Beverly Hills. But last week the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stunned everyone on glitzy Rodeo Drive by placing Beverly Hills on a list of 10,000 economically "distressed" cities. As such, the home of the stars, where the average household has an annual income of $41,000 and many residents make a hundred...
...that Abboud was autocratic and contributed to flagging morale. In 1980 the bank's board ousted him. Abboud soon became president of Occidental, only to resign in 1984 after policy clashes with Chairman Armand Hammer. Since then, Abboud has run his own investment firm near his home in the posh Chicago suburb of Barrington. His reputation for toughness lingers, however, and Abboud seems to revel in it. "People think the A in A. Robert Abboud stands for abrasive," he has said. (Actually, it stands for Alfred...
...architects. Combative, ascetic, a radical traditionalist, he is the perfect maverick: after wandering across the U.S. in the '60s, he aspired to a professional boxing career before becoming an architect. He is something of a Zen zealot. He hates "automated buildings with all manner of electronic convenience." He hates posh materials. "Concrete, far cheaper than marble, can achieve a far greater spiritual sense of wealth," he says. Indeed, most of his 90 buildings are constructed of concrete. Ando is thus maintaining a tradition: large-scale modern buildings in Japan were predominantly concrete until...