Word: manhattan
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When Koch decided last November to make a serious run for the mayoralty, he had a longer string of negatives than an expansion baseball team in its first season: no public recognition except in his Manhattan congressional district, no money, no powerful political patrons, no neighborhood organization, no personal pizazz. He did have a small cadre of zealous supporters, the most prominent of whom was Bess Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity...
...game and won the second 2-1. "We did not expect to find soccer of this caliber in China," conceded Cosmos Captain Werner Roth. But at a welcoming banquet, the mood was jovial, and the Chinese players eagerly pumped their visitors about AstroTurf and the height of buildings in Manhattan. The curious Chinese will soon find out for themselves. They arrive for a five-game U.S. tour next week and are scheduled to play the Cosmos Oct. 8 on the AstroTurf at Giants Stadium...
...there will not be a recession, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week for a daylong session. Not all were satisfied with the outlook, by any means. Arthur Okun, senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, noted that Washington policymakers, fearful that the rapid advance needed to cut unemployment would plunge the nation into still worse inflation, have kept the economy "on a tightrope." But the economists agreed to a man that business will come out of its summer slowdown-indeed, is already doing so-into a period of steady...
DIED. Marion K. Sanders, 72, journalist, novelist (The Bride Laughed Once) and biographer of Journalist Dorothy Thompson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While working for the State Department, Sanders helped develop its publications program and served as editor in chief of the Russian language magazine Amerika. She later worked as an editor at Harper's and Atlas World Press Review...
...department's decision last April to indict John J. Kearney, a Morley underling who headed the FBI office in New York that allegedly carried out the illegal operations against the Weathermen. The Kearney indictment provoked an outcry from within the FBI as agents took to the streets of Manhattan to protest the unprecedented action, and the spectre of similar demonstrations by disgruntled CIA operatives will undoubtedly weigh heavily on Bell when he prepares to hand down the final word on the Helms case...