Word: americanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy sheriffs took him away to prison right from the bargaining table at Manhattan's Americana Hotel. Two hours later, as he sat in the warden's office of civil prison, his head suddenly flopped forward. A doctor quickly summoned an ambulance, and Quill was taken to the emergency ward of Bellevue Hospital, where his collapse, possibly from a heart attack, was described as serious. A second team of union negotiators took over, led by T.W.U. Vice President Douglas MacMahon, 59, who shortly announced that the strike would go on "until hell freezes over...
...alliances with the U.S. Each rests on Washington's pledge of physical protection. If that assurance has, after two decades, lost much of its immediacy for Western Europe, it is nevertheless an assurance that can not exist if it is half doubted and half believed. If the Pax Americana is to be credible anywhere, it must be credible everywhere...
...National Review for a few months while he ran for mayor of New York. He didn't run too well, and last week Bill Buckley went back to journalism with a bang. Some 2,500 friends and well-wishers gathered in the ballroom of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to cele brate the tenth anniversary of his conservative magazine, which started as a weekly with 10,000 circulation and has grown to a biweekly with...
...undecided voters, seemed happy only among people that he knew were on his side. One evening in late October, while Beame was beaming at a $100-a-plate banquet for Democrats (menu: brandy-flavored bisque of Mississippi crawfish, filet mignon perigourdine, string beans saute amandine, bombe glacee Americana, petits fours), John Lindsay's dinner was a gulped ham sandwich between one curbstone speech and the next...
...difference from the Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Commonwealth and Avalon Foundations, plus private U.S. corporations and individual donors. Some 45 lectures are jammed into each four weeks, followed by afternoon talkfests in which the lectures are expanded or shredded. A main attraction is a 15,000-volume library of Americana...