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...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...That has certainly been the case for retailing behemoth H&M, which discloses third-quarter figures on Wednesday....
...He repeatedly offered his services to Carter as a diplomatic envoy, which Brzezinski made sure Carter turned down....
...Jimmy Carter When Jimmy Carter entered the Oval Office in 1977, Arthur Burns was Fed chair and facing growing criticism for his handling of inflation since his first appointment by Richard Nixon....
...There is another towering figure in Mr Vance’s life: his father, Cyrus Vance Sr, who served as president Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state from 1977 to 1980, among other top Washington posts....
...Letter in response to this article: Unlikely interwar visitors to the Hotel du Cap / From William H Janeway, Cambridge, Cambs, UK...
...Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr were the same height — towering over tiny Ross Perot, the feisty independent challenger they beat into third place. Bush Sr was taller than Dukakis....
...These were the kinds of figures who populated Bush Sr’s administration. Many of them, such as James Baker, were in the National Cathedral on Wednesday....
...business of Hungarian sailors / From Bernard H Casey, Frankfurt am Maine, Germany...
...In Britain fire hydrants tend to be small concrete paddles marked with a mean yellow enamel “H”. The mechanics are all underground, invisible....
...George H W Bush, the former US president, James Baker, the former secretary of state and Treasury, and John Major, the former UK prime minister, have all served in advisory capacities....
...The company’s “scramjet-powered” SR-72 could come into service by the 2030s and has the potential to transform military and civilian aviation....
...James Winne, a former Sanders supporter now firmly behind Mrs Clinton, said some of the Vermont senator’s fans would support Jill Stein, the Green party candidate, or not vote....
...Mike Carter flew from London Stansted to Cagliari, staying as a guest the night before at the Radisson Blu hotel (radissonblu.co.uk; doubles from £109) Photographs: Mike Carter, Luca Gasperini...
...Although he has some hard – and funny – things to say about Ezra Pound, James is firmly committed to celebration. He reminds us that poetry is, or can be, “the most exciting thing in the world”....
...After The Looming Tower (the story of September 11) and Going Clear (on the scientology racket), he has now produced the wonderfully readable Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp...
...… The Strangler Vine , by Miranda Carter, Fig Tree, RRP£14.99/ Putnam Adult, RRP$26.95 Carter’s rip-roaring debut novel takes us to the India of the 1830s, where the violent Thugee sect are at large....
...In the 1980s McEwan was one of a group of literary writers in London — others included Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Harold Pinter and Hanif Kureishi — who were radicalised by Thatcherism....
...The contrast with his father, George H.W....
...Washington is still a big part of the DNA of Carlyle, though the political face it once showed the world, with advisers including George Bush Sr, former secretary of state James Baker, former US defence...
...George H.W. Bush was Ronald Reagan’s successor and lost while seeking a fourth consecutive Republican term. Forget about painting the president as Carter-redux....
...“People don’t vote for vice-presidents and I can prove that with two words: Dan Quayle,” Mr Schneider said, referring to President George H.W....
...He may have taken his cue from the failed re-election attempts of Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. But the more apt example is from 1948....
...He said New Hampshire voters should defy expectations and – like they did in 1980, when they picked Ronald Reagan over George H.W. Bush, reversing the Iowa result – select a bolder conservative....
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