Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...livelier, pleasanter, more exciting and simply nicer place to be now than it has been in years. The fact is especially remarkable considering that with radical cutbacks in municipal services (a total of 60,000 workers), things like park benches, potholes and children's education receive less attention than they did in the past...
...York seems to be coping -chastened but in reasonably good mental health, even though just now in August the island of Manhattan is many tons lighter because most of its psychiatrists have gone to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons on Long Island. There seems a bit less of the manic energy that existed in the 1930s when, for example, Fiorello La Guardia raced to the Bronx Terminal Market at 6:30 in the morning with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters...
...truth, the council action was far less than that-and it was immediately attacked by other black leaders. "What do people in the tribal trust lands know about these changes while the war rages around them?" demanded John Maposa, an independent M.P. "What do they know about swimming pools and theaters?" Even the publicity secretary of Muzorewa's own United African National Council, David Mukome, argued that the new program had "just scratched the surface of the problem of discrimination...
...Greece, waves of charter planes are landing all day long at Crete, Rhodes and Corfu, depositing a sizable proportion of the country's estimated 1.5 million visiting fun seekers this summer. Package tours have changed some of the islands from contemplative hideaways into vacation factories. Water pollution is less visible but still dangerous, and dermatologists in Athens are reaping a rich harvest from treating skin diseases caught by bathers...
...Despite massive promotion, Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, and a soundtrack album geared to bring in the kids, this pale attempt to dramatize an old Beatles album is a lame entry. During the first six days of August, one 1,500-seat theater in New York City sold less than 15% of the house at the average showing. I Wanna Hold Your Hand, another Beatles-inspired movie, got a clammy reception three months ago. Notes MCA President Sid Sheinberg ruefully: "I liked it. There was only one thing wrong-nobody wanted to see it." Other big, new movies with...