Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...53rd year, the House system continues to struggle with its vaguely defined mandate and numerous roles in the education of Harvard students...
Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...
...charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came the answer...
...returned with what she admits may be "the only exclusive I'll ever have." To get it, she endured nine months in a Tehran prison, a trial on espionage charges, conviction and finally deportation. Delighted to be back in Amherst, N.Y., with her husband and three children, the "53rd hostage" was saving most of her experiences for a book she plans to write. Dwyer did say that she had been duped into and subsequently arrested for agreeing to participate in a "plan" to free the hostages. "I think they wanted to grab somebody after [the rescue attempt in] Tabas...
...last Tuesday, as the first rays of morning were beginning to light up midtown Manhattan, 25 tired, unshaven bankers in rumpled business suits stumbled wearily out of the Citicorp Center onto 53rd Street. "Whew," said one as he rubbed his eyes and ran his hands over the stubble on his face. "That's the most nerve-racking period I have ever spent." In cooperation with some 300 banks round the world, the moneymen had just completed the largest and most complex financial transaction in history. They had helped achieve an agreement that would lead to the freeing...