Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe he did know some things about America that others had overlooked, Kissinger went on, as old memories crowded back. He talked about growing up under the Nazis, of coming to America scared, of living in a seamy crevice on Manhattan's West Side, but then of writing an essay in high school on what it meant to be able to walk down a street with his head up. "There is this magnificent pluralism in America," he said. "You are never in a position where there is not some group that will listen...
...this one came up at a fantastic price." A walletful of credit cards also makes many a consumer feel like a big shot who can spend freely at posh restaurants. Says Roger Martin, public relations manager of Windows on the World atop the World Trade Center in Manhattan: "If a person with a card sees a $35 bottle of wine on the list, after one drink he'll decide to buy it. Shoot the works, baby! It's funny money, not green hard cash...
About a third of the holders of bank credit cards pay their bills within 25 days and thus escape the interest charges equal to 18% a year that banks levy on cardholders who pay their accounts more slowly. Last May, however, Manhattan's Citibank began imposing a fee of 500 a month on the prompt payers. Bank officials protested that they were losing money handling the quickly settled accounts. Be that as it may, the charge marks a vaguely Orwellian first: customers now have to pay for the privilege of not using extended credit...
Even before the action starts at Manhattan's Ethel Barrymore Theater, Santo Loquasto's setting begins to tell the story. It depicts a junk shop, a clutter of old furniture, toys and appliances that poignantly reflect the battered, grimy souls who cast them...
Died. Quincy Howe, 76, author, editor and broadcaster whose Yankee twang was familiar to millions of CBS radio listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster as chief book editor at the age of 34. His books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following...