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...sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...
...York's cultural offerings has tested the resourcefulness of the U.N. staff, which was able last week to produce, on short notice, tickets to the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera for Poland's Jaruzelski. New York hotels are braced for the onslaught. The venerable Waldorf-Astoria, well 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...
Even in the era of big lottery prizes, the jackpot was oversize: Patrick Ewing, 7-ft. star of Georgetown University's Hoyas. At a nationally televised drawing at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, seven teams that failed to make ) this year's National Basketball Association playoffs vied for the right to take first pick in pro basketball's June 18 draft. First choice meant Ewing. In a church service on the morning of the lottery, New York Knicks Executive Vice President Dave DeBusschere called for heavenly assistance. "I said some prayers," he recalled. "And then I thought...
...researchers will formally accept their prizes at a luncheon at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April...
Once he is ready to launch the final takeover battle, Pickens sets up a command post at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria or Helmsley Palace hotels. From there, he directs the action like a general, keeping in round-the-clock touch with allies and moneymen across the country. "He's incredibly well plugged in," says a Wall Street financier. "One of his great strengths is that he has more sources than anyone." Notes an investment banker: "He's an absolutely brilliant poker player, though there's a little chess in his game...