Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Josiah Bunting, 36, a novelist and ex-Army major, suggested that his purpose is "to make the students tolerant and sensitive, to teach them that their education should not interfere with their learning and to help them see when people are talking rot." John Jay Iselin, 42, president of Manhattan's Educational Broadcasting Corp., saw as his role "to select pertinent information and to put it out in a way that can be understood" by expert and layman alike...
...shortly be released from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous bladder and lymph nodes...
Some 400 people waited patiently in Moynihan headquarters in midtown Manhattan last night, listening to a band play Irish folk tunes, watching returns on any one of ten scattered televisions and sipping 50-cent-a-can beers...
Died. Connee Boswell, 68, innovative songstress of the Big Band era, whose recordings of such hits as Whispers in the Dark and They Can't Take That Away from Me sold more than 75 million copies; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boswell, stricken by polio as a child, sang from a wheelchair, but her long gowns were often artfully draped to create the illusion that she was standing up. She began her career as one of the three Boswell sisters. Continuing solo following her sisters' marriages, in 1936 she starred on radio, was featured on Broadway and appeared...
...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...