Word: manhattan
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...future of the U.S. Not since British loans helped finance the building of the nation's canals and railroads in the 19th century has the U.S. displayed a more magnetic attraction to overseas investors. Foreign money from almost everywhere is flooding into co-op apartments in Manhattan and Miami condominiums, sprawling petrochemical complexes in Houston and quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description. The money is going into...
DIED. William Steinberg, 78, German-born conductor who transformed the listless Pittsburgh Symphony into one of the nation's best; in Manhattan. As a Jew, Steinberg was forced to leave his post as music director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
...obsessed with the seamless panoramas he was able to produce with it. Some 20,000 miles and 280 exposures later, Dantzic's obsessions went on display: last week twelve views of U.S. cities and landscapes, ranging in length from 61 in. to 78 in., were exhibited in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...broadcast executives can almost tell to the hour how long it is to "S-Day," the ninth of June. That, of course, is the day that Fred Silverman becomes president of NBC and the TV world is turned upside down, inside out and dangled from the top of Manhattan's RCA Building, where NBC has its headquarters. Or so everyone in TV says. In the meantime, however, schedules have to be satisfied, and last week NBC announced its fall lineup. Oddly enough, it looked like something Silverman himself might have created...
...children are both teen-age boys, and they do not live in a Marine boot camp but in a Manhattan brownstone where their mother writes novels (Such Good Friends, A Sea-Change) and their father practices psychiatry. Theirs is undoubtedly a special case, but Gould's principles of shared responsibility have broad applications and roots that go back to the 19th century farm...