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...aesthetes to spend some $60 million while they admire The Large Bathers and other works during the show's three-month run. Local businesses see the show as a portrait of potential customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins on the Fourth of July. Her spheroid: a vibrantly colored, vinyl...
They should never have taken off in the first place. Air Force regulations permit military planes carrying VIPs into East European airports like Dubrovnik's to land only by daylight and in clear weather. The Air Force's European Command had applied for a waiver of these regulations. Safety officers at the Pentagon denied the request, but the 86th Airlift Wing apparently disregarded the denial. On high-profile vip flights, comments an Air Force officer, "the pressure to accomplish the mission on time is unspoken but great." Last week's firings should set up a much needed counterpressure...
...level, especially in the Deep South. Almost a third of NASCAR fans have household incomes above $50,000, and more than a quarter are professional or managerial--a far cry from the pickup-truck-and-overalls crowd of the sport's earliest days. Increasingly plush speedway facilities--air-conditioned VIP boxes and gourmet food, anyone?--have helped pull in this more upscale crowd...
...cramped 4Runner; Lexus is just out with a pricey model (in the $50,000-plus range) that it calls the LX450; and Mercedes is hurrying to complete a $300 million factory in Alabama that will build a muscly growler it calls an aav, or all-activities vehicle, with a vip price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble on its big wheels, with two gas tanks, chrome air horns, jaunty rust spots and revolving yellow...
...Hall of Fame ring back after he was acquitted of murder, but prosecutors have refused to return anything else. Among them: the famous handgun, fake beard and mustache; two cassettes ("Too Funky" and "Frank Sinatra Duets"); various membership cards (Hertz, West Hills Country Club, Blockbuster Video and a "Hooters VIP" card) and $3.93 in change...