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...wood trying to take us back to the past instead of leading us to the future." For others in the Hart constituency, merely finding a refuge from political monotony is sufficient reason for joining. "Nobody else impresses me at all," says Gordon Gardner, a copy editor from Savannah, Ga. "Mondale bores me to tears and Glenn is even more boring...
...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 Grumman's money-losing corporate-aircraft division in Savannah, Ga., renamed it Gulfstream, improved quality, cut costs and accelerated delivery times. When Gulfstream went public in April, Paulson collected $85 million in cash and stock worth $551 million...
...half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops for business trips and to visit his Hilton...
Sometimes such fears are unfortunately justified. Gulfstream Aerospace Founder Paulson's son Michael, 28, was ambushed by two men in front of his Savannah home one night last month. The younger Paulson pulled out a .22-cal., two-shot derringer magnum and killed one of the men. The second was arrested shortly afterward. Police recovered handcuffs, a gag and a tape cassette with a message requesting $1.2 million in ransom...
Produced by a local firm called the November Co., "Boston Walkabouts" sell for $10.95 in hotels, airport gift shops and bookstores. Similar guides to five New York City neighborhoods are being offered by Pathfinder Productions. Another New York company, Acoustiguide, produces taped tours of such smaller cities as Savannah, Ga., and Galveston, Texas, designed to be rented...