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...doing this only because we're angry?" After securing a $1 billion line of credit from the Bank of New York last Monday, the Robertses were ready to strike. They began placing calls to Diller at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, hoping to arrange a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that evening. Discovering that Diller was en route to New York City from Los Angeles with CBS entertainment president Howard Stringer and others, father and son hastily arranged to meet the plane at an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. Diller alighted and read their letter. Then he canceled plans...
...highly personal kind of deal, done in a quiet hallway of a New York City hotel, man to man. The place was the Waldorf Astoria, and the players were Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T, and Craig McCaw, head of McCaw Cellular Communications. In the middle of an edgy negotiation, they had left their factotums, emissaries and lieutenants behind and paced the corridor together for just 20 minutes before shaking hands on a transaction in which the largest U.S. telephone company would buy the No. 1 provider of cellular service for $12.6 billion in stock. In the process, Craig McCaw...
...MARLEYS WERE DEAD." HUH? EBenezer Scrooge (a nicely grave Michael Caine) has two dead partners -- played by Statler and Waldorf, those sour kibitzers from the Muppet Show. Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs. C., Gonzo is Charles Dickens . . . so this must be THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, the first feature from Jim Henson Productions since the founder's death. Director Brian Henson hasn't his dad's genius for comic detail, and the film often sinks into the brown funk of a wake for the passed master. But when Kermit (now voiced by Steve Whitmire) says...
Nothing about Gorbachev himself, when he met for an hour with TIME's editors at the Waldorf Towers in New York City last week, suggested a diminution of power either. This was, his press representative explained, not an interview but only an informal conversation, and he could not be quoted directly...
...this turmoil convinced company directors that the succession issue had to be settled. But the comings and goings had left the company divided into factions. So when board members met on March 14 in Chrysler's opulent suites on the 38th floor of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, they faced four possible choices...