Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently well worth it to globetrotting business executives. The Concorde also does much to ease that bane of long-distance air travel, jet lag. Besides, said one investment banker: "We can leave London at 11:15 a.m., arrive in New York at 10 a.m. and be at work in Manhattan the same morning...
...uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual features. Instead, they investigate the basic arbiters of sexual identity, the chromosomes...
From its peak in 1969, when sales totaled $28 million, the firm slid deeper into trouble until its creditors forced it into reorganization. Only last week did the big flagship Manhattan store attract the kind of crowds it had needed to survive. Thousands flocked to its doors, some to hunt bargains in the terminal close-out sale, others just to be there before lights in the paneled rooms went out for good. As the incongruously jaunty sales ads put it, "Well, Ezra, all good things must come...
...Against all odds, Balthus paints as though the tradition that runs from Donatello to Courbet had never broken. For that reason alone, any Balthus show compels interest; and the group of 24 paintings and drawings, ranging from 1934 to 1977, that went on view last week at Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery is doubly fascinating, being the first view Americans have had of Balthus' newest work...
DIED. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 67, organizer of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As chairman of the World's Fair Corporation, Deegan was instrumental in bringing the Pietà to New York City, the first time Michelangelo's sculpture had been removed from Rome in more than 400 years...