Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner for 25 years of L'Aiglon restaurant in Manhattan, and one of those beleaguered by the President's threat to crack down on taxdeductible, expense-account lunches, I have a question: Who paid for those Margaritas? I would have been happy...
...Young women with pointed breasts, sing of sap, sing of springtime." The poet is Senegal's longtime President Léopold Senghor, 71, who has written seven books of verse. In Manhattan to address the U.N. special session on disarmament, Senghor also read some of his poems to 700 listeners at a local community center. "My basic themes," he explained, "are black Africa, brotherhood in suffering, death and, very naturally, love, with emphasis on woman, both black and white." For his next book, Senghor plans a collection of poetic elegies, including one on Martin Luther King...
Giancarlo Uzielli has thrown in the towel as a member of the New York Stock Exchange -and picked up an apron. To practice up for Uzies, the Manhattan restaurant he plans to open, he has been tending bar at a local dining spot. "As long as they don't throw me a piña colada, I'm O.K.," says Uzielli, who is the ex of Henry Ford's younger daughter, Anne. Uzies will specialize in Italian cooking, including pizza. "I don't like the word pizza. It cheapens it," says Uzielli. By any name...
...mother of two small children, has reluctantly gone to work as a night waitress on weekends to cover living expenses. Gladys Glazer, a retired secretary in Orlando, Fla., shops where second-quality vegetables and fruits are offered at reduced prices, and even there she shuns strawberries as an extravagance. Manhattan Lawyer Arthur Alexander delivers some letters in person to nearby business offices to save on postage...
...hotel room, a meal, a cup of coffee or a bottle of mineral water to wash down the medicine. The dollar's weak buying power in most European countries, further sapped by inflation in many of the places on itineraries, makes even the disco life in Manhattan or Los Angeles seem cheap. The costliest popular countries for the dollar-bearing tourist are, in descending order, Switzerland, West Germany, France, Italy and England...