Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery...
...Justice Department's Antitrust Division last week opened a long-planned campaign to apply the antitrust laws to labor unions. Indicted in Manhattan after nine months of grand jury hearings was the boss of Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the biggest local in the blousemaking industry. The Justice Department charged that the I.L.G.W.U. local took part, along with three trade associations, in a conspiracy to fix prices of ladies' blouses, a $300 million industry, and to allocate business among blousemakers. Also charged with criminal conspiracy was Harry Strasser, a partner with slain...
...Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Arthur Burton Goetze, 57, president of the Western Electric Co., who started with Western Electric in Chicago as a 16-year-old draftsman; of a heart attack; in the Western Electric's offices in Manhattan...
Lonelyhearts (Dore Schary; United Artists). In the early years of the Depression, a young man named Nathan Weinstein, the manager of a small hotel in Manhattan, suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...