Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outsiders are exiled to the back room. It is a serious mistake for anyone who is not George Plimpton to go there. On the other hand, Sardi's (234 W. 44th St.) is an eminently friendly place to watch the theater folk. The Russian Tea Room (150 W. 57th St.) offers an occasional famous face, along with some of the best Russian food since the revolution...
...Barbara Walters' cloth-covered bedside table in her West 57th Street Manhattan apartment-next to the lacquered box she brought back from Jackie Kennedy's 1962 trip to India, the hand-carved backscratcher from Gerald Ford's visit to China last December, and all the other gewgaws gathered in her hectic travels-there sit two alarm clocks. For years Walters, the co-host queen bee of NBC's early morning Today show and the most influential woman on television, has been indentured to those tyrannical timepieces. They are set permanently...
...sided Accounts. The roundup was apparently a response to a recent public demand by twelve dissidents-including five religious leaders-that President Park resign. Meeting at Seoul's Myongdong Cathedral on March 1-the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule-the group issued a Declaration for Saving Korea. It labeled the country "a one-man dictatorship that tramples on human rights," and recommended: "There is no other way for the Park regime but to accept responsibility by stepping down." The government's official answer was that the declaration was part of a plot...
While music drowned out the rumbling of subway trains below, Tommy first-nighters celebrated the film's premiere by partying on the mezzanine level of Manhattan's 57th Street subway station. "I've never been so frightened in my life," said Pinball Wizard Elton John, as more than 700 guests jostled for 600 seats. The celebrators, many making their first trip into the tubes, were treated to something more than usual subway fare: 50 Ibs. of octopus flown in from the Bahamas, 50 dozen oysters from Virginia, five 30-lb. lobsters from Nova Scotia...
...senior hoopla. Outside of Providence's Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...