Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
...Golden Door, a chic fat farm in Escondido, Calif., Chef Michel Stroot wondered what he would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange...
...manufactures hardware for geodesics in Phoenix, and lives with his family in three connected domes, recalls looking up from dinner one night to find three people peering in one window, two at another and two more at the door trying to get in. Uninvited guests do not, however, bother Manhattan Businessman Henry Hansenberg and his wife, Interior Decorator Mara Gardner. They have erected a dome studio on their penthouse duplex overlooking Central Park...
First Taste. Last week, as a record 550 shareholders jammed into the cafeteria and three other rooms of the Stevens Tower in mid-Manhattan for the annual meeting, management got its first taste of the new offensive. In the street below, 3,000 ACTWU sympathizers-butchers, seamen, teachers, Princeton students-waved picket signs and chanted union slogans. At the meeting, several former Stevens workers accused the company of firing them for union activity. Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice...
...Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, Raisa Nemikin, 27, secretary at the Episcopal Church's national offices, read a statement: "The FBI and U.S. government are attempting to destroy the Hispanic community and the Puerto Rican independence movement. By cooperating, the church has destroyed whatever credibility and trust it had with the oppressed." With that, Nemikin began serving up to 14 months in prison for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury...