Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seek his pardon/ This cold December day.") Ajemian's reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This week, after a year and a half as a Nation writer in New York, Isaacson begins a new assignment...
...basic attitudes and the smallest things. An average French family saves 18% of its income and West Germans put aside 12%, vs. just 5% in the U.S., which has the lowest savings rate of all industrial countries. Houses are only rarely heated from attic to basement. Apartment-house hall lights are connected to timers and only stay on a minute or so while someone passes through. Eating out is a luxury reserved for special occasions. In the end, judgments about the relative wealth of Europeans and Americans turn on one's definition of prosperity. "I have less than...
...practice is to hire "investigators" to interview the grieving relatives and drop the name of a "highly recommended" attorney. After crashes abroad, American lawyers have been known to travel to the villages where the victims lived, rent a hall and then invite the heirs to come and listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel...
...illusion succeeded. Between 1884 and 1929, there was not one vacancy in the monumentally ostentatious building. It had inlaid marble floors, a rooftop promenade with gazebos, an English baronial dining hall and a uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
...from Manhattan who had a flurry of fame as a New York Giants' running back eleven years earlier. Though still honored on the saloon beat, where he peddles Goldblatt beer, Flynn has gnawing dreams of recaptured affluence. His road to riches is outlined for him by a city hall insider, who shows the ex-jock how he can buy a building condemned by the city and lease it back to New York as a day care center. All Richie needs is title to an abandoned synagogue in the South Bronx: for $50,000 ($10,000 down), he will...