Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the speech, a vastly relieved President walked from the Oval Office to the Roosevelt Room, where 50 friends and aides toasted him with champagne in celebration of his 55th birthday. He still had enough breath left to blow out the eight candles on his birthday cake. "Eight years!" the celebrators shouted. "All right!" replied an obviously pleased President. (He will formally announce his candidacy for re-election...
...floor space has been newly rented since January. Says Lewis Rudin of Manhattan's Rudin Management: "I counted up $1 billion-that's billion-of privately financed new construction the other day." He listed, among other projects, the $110 million AT&T headquarters at 55th and Madison and the $80 million IBM building at 57th and Madison. There is an apartment shortage in Manhattan, with co-ops selling for prices that would have been impossible only a year ago. Luxury buildings like the Olympic Tower, opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Galleria, on 57th Street -both...
...full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting out a blizzard of P.T. Barnum-like press releases, all CBS got for its $500,000 fee was some taped footage of the crash, which it duly showed several times along with some live daredevil stunts. Meanwhile, twelve sharks shipped up from Florida...
Arguably the best steak house is Christ Cella (160 E. 46th St.) and the best seafood place the Gloucester House (37 E. 50th St.), both expensive. The two best French restaurants in town are La Caravelle (33 W. 55th St.) and Lutèce (249 E. 50th St.). Bring money...
JAZZ. Mondays, at Michael's Pub (211 E. 55th St.), a group called the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...