Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton decided to add another stop to his itinerary under the heading of special business. Stratton phoned New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, an old friend from service in the 80th Congress, asked Javits to arrange a quiet meeting in his Manhattan apartment. There Illinois' Stratton, who would like to be Vice President of the U.S., chatted secretly for two hours with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who made a special trip down from Albany...
...paying plants. ¶ An increase of off-street parking facilities for New York's 1,500,000 vehicles; new apartment houses would have to provide more garage space, new commercial buildings would have to provide off-street parking. Exceptions: in business districts in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, the planners hoped that lack of parking facilities would persuade some drivers to travel by public transportation...
...hotels helped the guests feel at home. At the top resorts, visitors with a yearning for a kosher dinner could get it-flown in frozen from Lou Siegel's Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill...
...inevitable outcome of this dependent relationship is a growing antagonism toward the U.S. Foreign Minister Victor Andrade, onetime Ambassador to Washington and Manhattan teacher, complains that U.S. aid is niggling and adds: "I think the whole trouble is the U.S. was forced to take a leading role in the world before it was really ready. Your people need some preventive education before going abroad...
...appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first time, he broke attendance records everywhere he sang. "I can play Belafonte," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams, "and not lose any part of the audience...