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...local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face of the U.N., and a dowager named Betty Henderson, hoisting a varicose-veined calf onto a table to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...jail last month on charges of contempt. His offense was having defended the widow of a construction worker who had been killed during leftist strikes last year. Miralles argued that the widow was entitled to state compensation because her husband had been shot in the back by the Guardia Civil, Franco's paramilitary police force. A military court ruled that Miralles' defense had insulted the Guardia Civil and constituted "illegal propaganda...
...reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors...
...Republican Senator James Buckley, carrying his protest to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, also argued that soil conditions on the site were so bad that construction costs would soar, and that the lack of air conditioning in the plans meant that airplane noise from nearby La Guardia Airport would be intolerable for the residents. After hearing Buckley, Romney agreed that he would review the project, even though his department had already approved the necessary financing...
...best jumping-off points from New York are Westchester County Airport, the Butler Aviation Terminal for private planes at La Guardia, and Teterboro, N.J., and I quickly learn that corporate jets are the most likely bets. They take the longest jumps and often "deadhead"-that is, fly empty to pick up passengers. Jeffre, a girl I meet, has been waiting six days so far for a hop to Europe. "I would never have believed I'd stay so long," she says, "but everyone here has been so nice." I'm luckier: on the fourth...