Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though G.O.P. county committeemen gave Lindsay their formal endorsement by acclamation at a meeting in Brooklyn's faded Hotel St. George last week, his headlong flight from the party label irked many regulars. The reason for Lindsay's desire to dissociate himself from the Republican Party lay, of course, in New York City's registration figures: 2,378,000 Democrats to 698,000 Republicans. It is perfectly obvious that to win he will need the votes of many Democrats, disenchanted with Wagner and enchanted with him. But it would seem equally obvious that he should...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. This early Arthur Miller play about the family of a Brooklyn longshoreman is infused with elements of Greek tragedy; a splendid cast gives a moving performance...
...most magnificent buildings. There are large and desperate pockets of poverty, but New York remains far and away the world's wealthiest city. Lindsay is strongly Manhattan-oriented, but the city has four other boroughs, and what applies to Manhattan does not necessarily apply to The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island. Residents of a green and pleasant Staten Island community might almost have been hearing about a foreign country last week when Congressman Lindsay told them of a city where "streets are dirty and unsafe . . . crime and brutality are rampant . . . and the vicious cycle of slum-living continues...
...Americans spent $16 million to buy 4,000,000 boxes of pink, green and yellow Regimen tablets, convinced by a massive advertising campaign that the tablets could help them lose as much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent...
...diversification "through research, acquisitions and geography," plans to concentrate at first on becoming more familiar with Pfizer's U.S. operations by visiting each of the 25 U.S. plants. "Personal contact is important for any job," says Powers. After his appointment last week, he drove to Pfizer's Brooklyn plant, where he shook the hands of all 2,100 employees...