Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astoria neighborhood of Queens is just across the East River from Manhattan, but an ocean away in tempo and texture. Things move a bit slower here; pedestrians wait for the signal light before crossing. Steinway, a commercial street in the working-class area, could pass for the main avenue of a decaying Middle West town. On this stage, all parts of the overture sound simultaneously: an ersatz locomotive clangs and toots; an accordionist squeezes out The Sidewalks of New York; a sound truck emits the appropriately upbeat Buckle Down Winsocki...
...Jackson Heights, the people are better dressed, younger and even friendlier than in Astoria. Procaccino's right thumb is swollen and painful. The crowd pushes, pats, pummels him. He is near exhaustion, but enjoying him self. "Sometimes," he says once he is back in the car, "I don't think I'm going to be able to make it." He is asked why, in view of the wear and tear, the enormous problems of the job, his wife's reluctance about his running, is he making the race. "I guess it goes all the way back...
Prayers, Not Curiosity. As the week began, Lyndon Johnson told a Democratic luncheon at Manhattan's Waldorf -Astoria: "What I need now is not your curiosity. I need your prayers." Allied officials emphasized that the next move was up to Hanoi, and Hanoi wasn't moving. "You will have to ask Ho Chi Minh," said New Zealand's Holyoake when asked about the prospects of a pause. "At the present time, it rests with Hanoi...
...swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. "Peaceworkers, peacemakers are priceless." Judging from the still-remote prospects for peace, that verdict seems unimpeachable...
When the Shah arrived in New York Monday, 200 students demonstrated against him outside the Waldorf-Astoria. Shayegan said he did not know how many demonstrators there would be today...