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Donald Trump followed the lead of his father Fred, who built apartments in Brooklyn and Queens. But Trump the younger focused on the borough of Manhattan. In the mid 1970s, when real estate prices there were depressed by a recession and the city's financial problems, Trump astonished people by buying the old Commodore Hotel from the bankrupt Perm Central. He gutted it, put in lots of glass and chrome, and reopened it as the Grand Hyatt. Says he: "We expected to get an average of $38 a night...
Manufacturers of popular software are becoming industry superstars. The heads of software companies, like Microsoft's Gates, Lotus Development's Mitchell Kapor and Software Publishing's Fred Gibbons are wooed by hardware companies, which want them to produce pro grams that will run on their machines. Says Gibbons: "Control of the personal-computer industry is shifting from the hardware manufacturers to the software suppliers...
...barest trappings of dramatic action. Falk, Svanhild, and their social circle, consisting of the various engaged couples and suitors plus an assortment of guests and maiden aunts, simply sit around philosophizing and arguing in a sort of endless garden party. Some pleasure derives from the garden designed by Fred Weber, and intricate structure of terraced platforms and bridges on which speakers leap about, separating and meeting again. But no amount of creative tinkering with platforms can convert these endless wranglings over marriage versus love, friendship versus faithfulness, adventure versus obligation, into a satisfying evening of theatre. Instead, the effect...
...Dean of the College Fred L. Glimp '50, speaking over a loudspeaker, gives students five minutes to evacuate the building. Students later says the announcement was inaudible inside the building...
...personal toll of the crisis was great: in late April, then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford suffered a stroke, and later resigned; Fred L. Glimp '50, then-dean of the College, left Harvard for 10 years. On the student side, 13 were eventually asked to withdraw from the University, 20 were given "suspended suspensions," 99 were placed on warning. Many of those who participated in the strike, such as G. Garrett Epps '72, would say years later that the event remained "the most important experience of our lives...