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...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
Litigation is an important part of the Trump style. He has ten different legal firms tending his affairs. His attorneys include his brother-in-law, John Barry, whose wife, Trump's elder sister Maryanne, is a federal judge in Newark. (Trump's only surviving brother, Robert, works for him as an executive vice president. His other sister, Elizabeth, is an administrative assistant for Chase Manhattan Bank...
...68th and most of the 66th and 67th floors of the tower. The building actually has only 58 floors, but Trump felt that wasn't sufficiently impressive, so he skipped some floor numbers to give his tenants a psychic boost. "He would have loved to build another ten floors," says architect Scutt, "but he couldn't because of zoning rules, so he changed the numbers...
...Montreal Summer Olympic Games in 1976," Trump recalls. "I'd dated a lot of different women by then, but I'd never gotten seriously involved with any of them. Ivana wasn't someone you dated casually. Ten months later, in April 1977, we were married." They were married, incidentally, by Norman Vincent Peale, the prophet of Positive Thinking, and then Trump put his bride right to work supervising the interior decor for all his projects. (There are also three children, Donald Jr., 11, Ivanka, 7, and Eric...
...Women who took the Pill for more than ten years tripled their risk of developing breast cancer...