Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was the year I graduated from the sixth grade at P.S. 124--which was as far as that school went-- to the seventh grade at P.S. 40, two blocks further away along Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. It was a big thing and I had looked forward to it for years. It was my first Commencement...
...Julian, Candy, Vidal (4) Southern and Hoffenberg (3) 5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (5) 6. This Rough Magic, Stewart (6) 7. The Man, Wallace (7) 8. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (8) 9. Armageddon, Uris (9) 10. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby NONFICTION 1. Reminiscences, MacArthur (1) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (3) 3. My Autobiography, Chaplin (2) 4. The Italians, Barzini (4) 5. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (7) 6. The Warren Commission Report (6) 7. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (5) 8. Future of Man, De Chardin 9. The Words, Sartre...
...water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes were dispatched from Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station and the Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station. Six Coast Guard cutters near the scene were given the emergency "go" signal, and two commercial vessels in the vicinity raced in to help...
...bluff, ebullient Democratic mayor from 1946 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The luck of the Irish "Billo" had, at least in the beginning-immigrant from County Mayo at 20, bartender, hod carrier, New York City policeman, night-school lawyer and overnight hero in 1940 when, as Brooklyn D.A., he uncovered the infamous Murder, Inc. and sent seven of its killers to the chair. That made him mayor of New York, and a good job he seemed to be doing too-until he suddenly quit "because of health" to take a less taxing job as Ambassador to Mexico...
...script says that when the curtain goes up the character called Harry is standing on the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge looking suicidal. He removes his coat. A friend he hasn't seen for 15 years comes up to him just then. He quickly puts the coat back...