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...Ninth Avenue-and then she is back into her real number. Her delivery takes on the timbre and pace of a pneumatic hammer. "This is a city that can attract and hold business, that can make its subways and its buses fit for human beings and can give us cleaner streets and air and can reduce crime and restore learning in our schools...
...contrast, Father's Six, located on Bow St. next to the cleaner's, is a raunchy, sticky-floored hole designed for people who want to get loaded as fast and as cheaply as possible. If you don't mind being proofed at the door, and fighting your way through a forest of sweaty, drunken bodies to a sticky table where you can drink, listen to blaring bad jukebox music and look at posters advertising specials on the walls, you'll like Father...
...Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least $8 million in cash from her bank-meaning that some $3 million was missing. Some burglars, the cops concluded...
...Lindbergh rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even in the '20s, he represented a kind of nostalgia. In an era of Teapot Dome and bathtub gin, he seemed to Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...
...came to England for the economic summit. Carter mentioned Wales, the birthplace of his favorite poet Dylan Thomas. But Callaghan, concerned about possible problems with Welsh nationalists, suggested Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pop. 295,700), a grimy coal town that is rife with unemployment as it attempts to shift to cleaner industries. Besides being the home of Washington's ancestors, Newcastle is a stronghold of the Labor Party (although the Conservatives did surprisingly well there in last week's elections...