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...SELECTIVE Service System (SSS), the agency that wants to register you and me for the draft resides in a bazooka-ammo red brick building near Chinatown in the nation's capitol. Actually, the SSS only takes up about three-quarters of the building's fifth floor, but from all of the yelling out in the streets, you'd think these people owned half the town...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Administering Armageddon | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...York City's teeming Lower East Side and left school early. From his Neapolitan mother, he inherited his legendary nose. From his French-Italian father, a barber, he got the encouragement to study the piano. By age 17, "Ragtime Jimmy" was performing in saloons from Coney Island to Chinatown, with a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

State Rep. Melvin H. King made stops at downtown housing projects for the elderly and in Chinatown yesterday before spending the better part of the afternoon in his State House office...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: White, Challengers To Face Off Today | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

MALICE AND AMBITION do not adhere to Alan Alda's face. Alda the screenwriter forgot that Alda the actor looks like a waiter in Chinatown begging for a big tip--his squinting, ever-genial countenance belies the selfish, insatiable drive that defines his hero, Senator-on-the-make Joe Tynan. The words of the screenplay may fit, but Alda can't take up the Nice Man's Burden: Hawkeye can't play Macbeth...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Seduction of Hawkeye | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Thumbs Up for the U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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