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...TRUMP TAMER Switching from gabbing to grabbing, former talk-show host Merv Griffin outmaneuvered developer Donald Trump for control of Resorts International, the Atlantic City hotel-and-gambling company. The megarich Merv paid $364 million...
...what's this? The Manhattan pedestrian spots a banner flapping in the cold night wind: THE BILLIARD CLUB. Yet the scene beneath it is not a dimly lighted doorway, attended by a tattooed bouncer, but monstrous picture windows straight out of Trump Tower. Behind the glass, peacock feathers wave from porcelain planters. Within, fashionable men and women lay cues to green felt. A sticker at the door indicates that, yes, the club does take American Express. Welcome to the new world of pool...
Nyet this time. Donald Trump, who had taken to describing the quasi-summit as a Gorbachev visit to the Trumps with a stop at the U.N. squeezed in, was scratched from the schedule before the Soviet General Secretary ever came to town. But the developer's hopes revived when he heard that Gorbachev was in front of Trump Tower. He raced down from his 26th-floor office, but the man waiting on the street turned out to be a Gorby impersonator who had won a look-alike contest. Trump shook hands and posed for a picture anyway...
...Trump's bought your plane, where your bags have been loaded...
NATION: Leaving his troubles behind, Gorbachev jets into New York to meet with Reagan, Bush -- and Donald Trump...