Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played-saxophones, cellos, violins, steel drums. On Park Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, across from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players blew tunes ranging from the Beatles to Mendelssohn. One night more than 150,000 New Yorkers and visitors came to Central Park's Sheep Meadow. They laid out blankets and picnic suppers, bottles of wine and sleeping babies, and settled down to listen to the New York Philharmonic play a program culminating in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At the finale, brilliant salvos of fireworks...
...film Death Wish-about a white liberal turned vigilante-revenger -received a certain amount of sneaking sympathy at the dinner parties of the white middle class. Since 1976 the Anger Quotient has gone steadily downward. A decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims...
...King and the "Duke." "Massachusetts voters are very sophisticated," says the former Cambridge mayor and veteran of five years on the Cambridge School Committee and ten on the Cambridge City Council. "Often, it's those who didn't go to Harvard who are more sophisticated," she says from her Central Square headquarters...
...with the Soviet Union. The 500,000-man Turkish armed forces are deservedly renowned for their ferocity. With more than 300 warplanes and nearly 3,000 tanks, they help tie down about 26 divisions of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, which otherwise might be deployed against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean and to deny overflight rights to Russian warplanes headed for the Middle East. Three U.S.-manned electronic surveillance bases, due to resume operations shortly, can eavesdrop on the U.S.S.R...
...Eastern strongly oppose deregulation. Smaller and medium-size carriers are trying to line up merger partners to keep from being swallowed up by the big airlines if and when deregulation goes through. Texas International is trying to take over National. Defensive linkups are also planned by Southern and North Central as well as Continental and Western. Says one worried Western executive: "To us, United Air Lines seems just like a big cougar perched on a rock waiting to pounce...