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...founding member and past president of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Hope's clients have included Missouri Pacific Railroad and Air Florida, as well as actress Brooke Shields and the family of the late billionaire J. Paul Getty. Her billings reportedly account for nearly half the business generated by her firm's Washington office...
...first major coup came in 1976, when he persuaded the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad to sell him for $10 million the dilapidated Commodore Hotel adjoining Grand Central Station. It was typical of the kind of deal that Trump now calls "my favorite art form." An unknown and unwealthy hustler of 30, he had to persuade some bankers to lend him $80 million (he did) and some politicians to give him a $120 million tax abatement (he did). It did not hurt that Fred Trump was a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, or that Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor...
Trump's latest and biggest and most complicated controversy centers on Manhattan's largest remaining piece of undeveloped land, the 76-acre principality bordering the Hudson River from 59 Street to 72 Street. Once a Penn Central railroad yard, it is now mostly weeds and debris. Trump, who bought it for $90 million in 1984, touts it as a $5 billion Trump City, "a concept that is going to be spectacular." It would feature a 150-story building, the world's tallest ("The city of New York should have the world's tallest building"), plus 7,600 luxury apartments...
...Communist Party newspaper Pravda pinpointed yet another reason for the empty store shelves. In a story accompanied by photos showing tons of consumer goods -- from TV sets to champagne to vegetables -- piled uselessly in railroad stations around Moscow, Pravda left the impression that the backup was caused by sabotage, presumably by freight handlers or other workers. Soviet officials issued a denial but in the process inadvertently indicted the whole system of transporting goods. The stockpiles, they said, were the result not of deliberate disruption but of poor management and lack of delivery trucks. "I know this problem well," said Luzhkov...
...Jones may bear the name of a famous railroad engineer, but last year he acted more like a wise ship captain. When the Boston Celtic ship started to sink, Jones jumped overboard...