Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood in silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security police swooped down on them in their hotel and deported them before they could get near the conference hall. In Manhattan, three Croatian terrorists barricaded themselves inside the Yugoslav mission to the U.N. in an attempt to publicize their national aspirations...
...became head of theater at Lincoln Center four years ago, Producer Joseph Papp promised the equivalent of a New Deal for drama in New York City. Last week, in a more somber mood, Papp, 55, announced he was quitting the center to concentrate on his experimental theaters in Lower Manhattan. In language that a bureaucrat might envy, he described his move as a "strategic withdrawal forward...
Last week a survey of Vollard's 45 years of work as impresario went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is the kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
Widespread Practice. The award seems likely only to make Wall Street's employee rustlers a bit more circumspect, not to stop their activities. Last week brought new indications of how widespread the practice is. Just as the N.Y.S.E. award was being announced, Manhattan-based Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. sued Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. for $5 million damages, charging that Loeb Rhoades had pirated 17 salespeople out of its New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., offices. Bache also sued its former managers of those offices for conspiring with Loeb Rhoades to purloin trade secrets, and asked the New York courts...
Died. Ward Melville, 90, chairman of the board of the Melville Corp.; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Melville, who started out working for his father's shoe store at $8 a week, helped turn the business into a billion-dollar company by mass-producing low-priced shoes. He also founded the Miles and Thom McAn shoe chains...