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...Hitachi Ltd., a manufacturer of many types of machinery, notably atomic power plants. With 1967 sales of $1.7 billion, Hitachi was up from last year's No. 18 place on the list. Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datsun cars, whose sales were $1.27 billion, shot up from 42nd to 25th place, followed by Toyota Motor Co. ($1.26 billion), which was up from 40th to 28th...
...point, 50 soldiers formed a double line with fixed bayonets and tried to halt a mob marching on Third Avenue. They fired a volley into the crowd before they were overrun and took to their heels. One soldier tried to escape by scrambling up a rock pile near 42nd Street. A gang of toughs followed him, "grabbed him, and taking him to the top of the rocks stripped his uniform off him, and after beating him almost to a jelly, threw him over a precipice some 20 feet high on the rocks beneath...
...been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
TRADITIONALISTS may still think of Broadway and 42nd Street as the busiest corner in Manhattan. Not if they spend a warm summer afternoon walking between 50th and 51st Streets along the Avenue of the Americas. There, the crowds that congregate for a visit to the Time & Life Building's street-level Exhibition Center, and pause to relax near the fountains in the plaza, are likely to rival any on Broadway...
York Harbor to open an exhibit for the projected American Museum of Immigration on Liberty Island. Boarding one of Manhattan's sightseeing boats, she sailed up to dock at 42nd Street, where Happy and Nelson were piped aboard to pay their respects. The Rockefellers scrambled ashore afterward, but the First Lady was just feeling her sea legs, and she chugged on up the Hudson for two days of sightseeing in her "Discover America" campaign...