Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person," she says. "I'm already a person." Through a capable campaign staff, she is setting up a detailed district-targeting system for a get-out-the-vote effort where she is strongest. Rivals hope she will wound herself by playing the brash tartar; Congressman Koch and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton try to goad her with cracks about self-discipline and lack of administrative ability. So far she has left the bait dangling...
...York City and, after finding a home and a job, sent for Rod and his older brother Eric. Flying into New York at night, Rod stared down on the city. "It was so big from the air," he recalls, "I couldn't believe it." He entered Manhattan's George Washington High School (Henry Kissinger's alma mater), but did not go out for school sports; his afternoons were taken up by a part-time job in a grocery store to help support the family...
...biggest conglomerates (1976 sales: $3.4 billion), is a curiously compulsive monologuist. Whether lolling with a weekend visitor by a sleepy lagoon outside his luxurious beach house, La Favorita, in the Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist...
...other things, the adequacy of the company's public disclosure in connection with transactions of G & W's securities, the company's pension funds and its dealings in the shares of an auto-parts subsidiary that had some stock traded on the over-the-counter exchange. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is supervising another probe. Finally, the New York State senate committee on crime and correction is examining the possibility that organized crime may be linked to the operations of Madison Square Garden Corp., another G&W affiliate. Jeremiah B. McKenna, general counsel to the committee, dismisses...
...come back not only to tell about it, but to dance better than ever. Last season Taylor announced the disbanding of his company. A big-bankroll tour of South America had just been canceled at the last minute, and Taylor had a $50,000 deficit from the previous Manhattan season to pay off. Dissolution seemed the only course...