Word: 72nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million apartment house was considered a folly in the 1880s, when Entrepreneur Edward Clark broke ground west of Central Park at 72nd Street. Rich New Yorkers had never favored apartment living. The site was also so far north and west of fashionable society that it was nicknamed the Dakota after the remote Western territory. Yet Clark went ahead with his ersatz castle, variously described as German Renaissance and Victorian chateau. The architecture and appointments, as Birmingham puts it, were meant to "convey the impression that, though one might be living in an apartment house, one was really living...
Considering the blue-chip ballot, there was certainly nothing political about the decision. The vote of the 34 owners of a co-op at Manhattan's 19 East 72nd Street blackballed a $750,000 apartment sale to Richard Nixon. The former President had sought to purchase a nine-room penthouse in the expensive East Side high-rise so that he and his wife Pat could be closer to their children. But the other owners believed that the Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison...
Green, who led most of the way, needed a birdie on the 72nd hole to force a sudden-death playoff. He ladled an 8-iron approach to within three feet of the flagstick. Then he jabbed the pivotal putt to the left of the cup and Player had earned his third green Masters jacket...
...Andrew Carnegie, who later became member of St.Andrews. Reid was on hand at the historic moment when the first golf ball was struck on American soil. After his friend Bob Lockhart had brought over a set of clubs from Scotland, he tried them out in New York City on 72nd Street near the Hundson River, which is now Riverside Drive...
...wearing a lynx jacket, for which (as she chugs sturdily toward 72nd Street) she apologizes. Her environmentalist friends have scolded her, she says...