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...losses of $80 million in 1984 alone. Meeting in Chicago last week, the owners decided that the only way to play for keeps is to switch to a fall schedule in 1986, even though that means going head to head with the dominant National Football League. Said Donald Trump, owner of the U.S.F.L.'s New Jersey Generals: "If God wanted football to be played in the spring, he wouldn't have created baseball...
Other owners, however, can draw on vast wealth to keep the U.S.F.L. alive. The Generals' Trump is a New York City real estate tycoon who built the $200 million Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. Alfred Taubman, a Detroit real estate baron who owns the Michigan Panthers, is believed to be worth more than $500 million...
...dangerously robbed a mobster's safe, Charlie fiercely slaps Paulie around and then surprisingly pats his face tenderly. This combination of fierce love and angry concern keeps the two together, leaving them with no one else. The two encounter the mob, and almost succumb until Charlie plays his trump card, and finally shows that while he can stand on his own, he still needs Paulie...
...holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive urges of developers, the very idea of the glass tower has acquired a bluster it never had before; its epitome is the kind of boy-pharaoh glitziness favored by Donald Trump. One of the problems for MOMA, therefore, was how to preserve the lineaments of its original self-the Goodwin-Stone façade-while, on the one hand, maintaining a decent relationship with the surviving brownstone mix of 53rd Street and, on the other, giving the tower a properly snooty...
...plushest project so far is Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Its 68 stories of bronze and glass encase 263 condominiums that cost from $600,000 to $10 million each. Among the buyers: Johnny Carson, Sophia Loren, Director Steven Spielberg. Footmen in Buckingham Palace-style uniforms open doors to a lobby that is really a six-story atrium with an 80-ft. waterfall. The Trumps, including their three children, preside over a three-story penthouse, an exception to his longstanding rule of not living where tenants...