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...into a 117-jetliner network spanning 107 North American cities and including Brussels and London. But the company had strayed seriously from the keep-it-simple formulas that had made People a case study at business schools across the U.S. Only nine weeks after People installed a semiswank VIP lounge in its dowdy North Terminal at Newark, the company was on the verge of becoming a casualty of the very same fare- cutting wars that it had provoked...
...last month. Suddenly and without forewarning, the airline seemed about to drop its entire spartan philosophy. Burr announced that People would upgrade all its services, install leather seats in its aircraft, and offer --horrors!--luxury flying in newly installed first-class seating. At the same time the determinedly upscale VIP lounge was set up in North Terminal. The counterrevolutionary campaign was a clumsy attempt to woo the slice of the airline market that People had never served, the business traveler. The change in style came on the heels of a brief People effort to raise fares, a move that...
Forget the summit. Let's get down to serious Japanese business here. Not every VIP visiting Tokyo last week was wrangling over the yen and fretting over international terrorism. Anna Maria Craxi, the stylish and ebullient wife of Italy's Prime Minister, was asked through the usual very proper channels what she would like to see during her visit. Kabuki, perhaps? Tea ceremony? A Buddhist temple? Craxi had another idea: an Issey Miyake fashion show. So, snug within the security perimeter of her hotel, Craxi got a close look at some of the world's most beautiful clothes...
...family, which consisted of two wives, four mistresses, one legitimate son and three illegitimate children, including Jewelry Designer Paloma Picasso. Given the artist, a controversy about invitations was inevitable. In a country now governed by Socialists, it was arranged that every Socialist worth his card be put on the VIP list, while some members of other political groups almost had % to beg at the door. Christiane Schwartzbard, a Communist member of the Paris city council, bitterly complained about having been overlooked, tartly observing that Picasso himself was a Communist. Retorted Roger Roman, another of the uninvited council members, "Picasso does...
...trained in the care and feeding of outsize egos (Frank Sinatra and Lee Iacocca maintain permanent residences in the Waldorf Towers), employs a "flagman," whose sole duty is to keep track of the 115 foreign flags that the hotel keeps on hand and to fly the right ones for VIP guests. Since 40 foreign delegations are booked into Waldorf suites (at up to $2,100 a night), flagpole space will have to be judiciously apportioned...