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...arrangement dates back to 1962, when Gaudio and Valli, who came from working-class Italian neighborhoods in the Bronx and Newark, respectively, were only dreaming of hitting it big. At the time, Valli was a barber, Gaudio worked in a printing plant, and the Four Seasons was an unknown group playing on weekends in small clubs and bowling alleys. Sitting one evening in Valli's apartment in a Newark low-income housing project, the two friends decided to be partners forever and share their earnings equally. Recalls Gaudio: "We said, 'Neither one of us knows where we're going...
Panda mania ! All New York turns out for China' s newest ambassadors, Ling Ling and Yong Yong, as they settle into the Bronx...
...police department was being enlarged. "But the single thing people will care about," he added, "is that the pandas have come to town." How right he was. Last Thursday morning, as a gong was sounded and a comely female named Yong Yong waddled into her enclosure at the Bronx Zoo, New York City was gripped with that well-known but incurable fever: pandamania...
...biggest crime of all, says Wedtech's new president, Joe Felter, is that the scandal "cast a terrible aspersion on our minority work force that was grossly undeserved." For the moment, though, the sophisticated computer- controlled machines on the shop floor are mostly silent. For the South Bronx, Wedtech is one more example of hopes betrayed...
...very air tingled with it?" Certainly not in drab, dreary, bombed-out London. And there are some unaccustomed small inaccuracies that further tarnish the golden glow: the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey are not officially part of the city subway system, and Van Cortlandt Park is in the Bronx, more than six miles north of Harlem...