Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominate New York City's mayor, John V. Lindsay, as Man of the Year...
Jokes or not. Mayor John Lindsay has been pressing a major campaign to mop up crime around Times Square. At the same time, to help revitalize the area, the mayor's office of midtown planning and development has encouraged builders to include theaters in their new office buildings by offering them a 20% bonus in the amount of floor space now allowed them under the zoning code. So far this year, four new theaters within office buildings have opened in Manhattan's theater district-the first new legitimate theaters in the area since 1928. One, the Uris, rang...
...SUPPORTING CAST has, in human terms, the juiciest roles--and takes full advantage. Tony Abatemarco's General Ivolgin, Michael Gury as his healthy and Jack Gilpin his tubercular sons are effective both singly and as a divided family, just as Geralyn Williams and Eleanor Lindsay, Madamae Yepenchin and Aglaya, form anice bourgeois setpiece Josh Rubins is hilarious and vile as the obnoxious Lebedev...
...most important contributions to the new style of defensive living is one of the simplest: more and more cities are lighting up at night. New sodium lights, which double the illumination of normal street lamps, have proliferated. Last week New York Mayor John Lindsay announced that $15 million would be spent putting sodium lights on 1,200 miles of the city's streets...
...week, management abruptly closed the hall after the musicians' union refused to accept its contract offer. Salaries were a secondary issue. What the musicians objected to was management's cost-cutting plan to get by, when members were away or sick, with a smaller orchestra. Mayor John Lindsay, distressed at the possibility of losing one of the city's biggest tourist attractions, called both sides to meet with him, and the hall reopened...