Word: 79th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flight Pattern. Last week in Manhattan, no fewer than seven major exhibitions opened on Saturday. The crowds that cruised through them followed an invisible but well-defined flight pattern either up or down Madison Avenue between 79th and 57th Streets...
...Seals in 39th, Phil Lichtenstein in 74th, and captain Andy Meltzoff in 79th completed the Yardling scoring in their final meet of the season...
...circuit, specializes in the sophisticated songs of the 1930s and '40s. Hunched over his piano in the ship's dimly lit, couch-lined salon, he plays with a rolling, lilting style that is guaranteed not to rock the patrons or the boat, which is moored at the 79th Street causeway. The son of a New York Philharmonic percussionist, he says that the chatter of the customers does not bother him, especially since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them...
...superior there was a dead horse on Kosciuszko. The officer said, "Well, make out your report." The policeman, a poor speller, disappeared. After an hour, he came back disheveled and out of breath. His officer demanded to know where he had been. Replied he: "I moved the horse to 79th Street...
Some of those who finally made it home felt like Odysseus. One man hiked 15 miles from Wall Street to the East Bronx. Another had his wife sail their Chris-Craft 30 miles down the Hudson to pick him up at the 79th Street marina. A dozen passengers crossed the East River to Queens in the back of an armored car; aboard a flatbed truck, threescore executives toting attache cases jounced happily home across the 59th Street bridge...