Word: manhattan
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...appeal from Ethiopia involving its quarrel with Somalia. Moscow's purpose was geopolitical: "To outflank the Middle East, to demonstrate that the U.S. cannot protect its friends, to raise doubts in Saudi Arabia right across the Red Sea, in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Iran. " Speaking in Manhattan last week to the International Radio and Television Society, Kissinger suggested that four basic principles should be kept in mind−perhaps by the Carter Administration−as the Russians, with their Cuban consorts, now threaten to intervene in southern Africa as well...
...deficit is not reduced below $61 billion, Miller has warned, the Federal Reserve will restrict the money supply and raise interest rates as an alternative way of fighting inflation. The Fed already has moved twice in the past two weeks to tighten up; last week, in response, Chase Manhattan Bank raised its prime rate on business loans a quarter point, to 8¼%. Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein says that a $25 billion tax cut would be "guaranteed to fail" if it leads to a tighter money policy. He favors both delaying the cut until Jan. 1 and shrinking...
...knows about it." As for Ted, he does not stay at home either. In February, for example, he spent a few days skiing in Aspen with former Olympic Skier Suzy Chaffee. But speculation about a love affair, said Chaffee, 31, before giving a gymnastics performance last week at a Manhattan charity benefit, is nonsense. Suzy says she "has a man in her life and his initials are not T.K." Anyway, she asked, "If Rockefeller were skiing with Kennedy, would people assume they were having an affair...
...Russian-born Ballerina Natalia Makarova was at the barre. And the day after? "I was doing stretching exercises in bed." Now that Son Andrei Michael (named after Prince Andrei in War and Peace) is three months old, Makarova, who is married to San Francisco Businessman Edward Karkar, is in Manhattan practicing for her May 10 return to the American Ballet Theater. Dancing, she says, is "more of a joy now than ever. It's more of a challenge." Between rehearsals, Makarova, 37, squeezes in time with Andrei. No, he isn't yet en pointe, but his legs...
When the box office opened for the American Ballet Theater's New York spring season, $52,000 worth of tickets were snapped up on the first day-a record for A.B.T.'s Manhattan home, the Metropolitan Opera House. The allure of Mikhail Baryshnikov's new Don Q certainly helped, and the presence of stars like Gelsey Kirkland in A.B.T.'s galaxy did no harm. But other U.S. dance companies are also enjoying a boom. Indeed by almost any measure, dance has become the fastest-growing of all the performing arts...