Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable vote getter. Since 1959, he has represented Manhattan's so-called "silk stocking" district; it includes Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Sutton Place, but it also embraces the seamier realms of Green wich Village and the East Side. In his first election he won by only 7,800 votes. He has vastly increased that margin every time since, and in 1964 he had an 81,000-vote plurality...
...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...
...accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible," she allowed at another point, shaking her trim tricorn hat like a panache at the antifeminists. William Green, doughty president of the A.F.L., accepted the challenge. "Labor," he said grimly, "will never be reconciled to her appointment...
...reparations, $200 million in longterm, low-interest loans-and the promise of vast new markets that may do much to ease South Korea's 10% unemployment. Yet, to many Koreans who fear Japanese economic domination, the treaty sounds dangerous. "Negotiating with the Japanese is like peeling a green onion," said one Korean recently. "You never know what's there until it's all gone...
...noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw, and showed off the durable presence that makes him the most valuable exhibit of all. "If they had a red carpet up there for me like I thought," he winked, "the accident wouldna' happened...