Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nights before the stadium mob scene, 1,000 police had protested next to Gracie Mansion, Mayor Abe Beame's residence. They set off firecrackers, clanged garbage-can lids, blocked traffic, and shouted "Wake up, wake up!" through the streets of one of Manhattan's most fashionable neighborhoods...
Kissinger, who just barely had time to unpack his bags in Washington following his return from his twelve-day mission in southern Africa, journeyed to Manhattan to give the U.S. answer at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. In a solemn, hourlong address, he rejected the Soviet charges in blunt terms. Washington, he said, had become involved diplomatically in southern Africa because it was convinced that "racial injustice and the grudging retreat of colonial power" had raised the possibility that the region could become "a vicious battleground with consequences for every part of the world...
...Plan. MacDougall, 48, is creative director of Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., which has $30 million in annual billings-small potatoes by Manhattan standards but enough to make it Boston's biggest ad agency. He is best known in the advertising community for being the first "to call a jock a jock" in a campaign for Bike brand underwear ("There's nothing like a washed-out jock"). Other successful MacDougall slogans: "It takes two hands to handle a whopper. The two-fisted burger from Burger King"; "Salada-the coffee drinker...
Today MacDougall presides over what he calls "an instant ad agency" located in a Manhattan penthouse. Out of four editing rooms flow dozens of 1-min. and 5-min. TV "documentaries." Says MacDougall: "We hope to present our case so simply that nothing will be talked about as an advertisement. The less memory of slickness left in people's minds, the more we will have accomplished." Example of MacDougall's unslick touch: Ford never wears makeup. One 5-min. piece is a biography of the President, stressing his command positions, from Eagle Scout to football captain to House...
Died. William Zeckendorf Sr., 71, high-flying New York City real estate tycoon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Working with some of the world's leading architects, Zeckendorf built such monuments as the Mile High Center in Denver and Montreal's Place Ville Marie. But the wheeling and dealing backfired in 1965 when his firm, Webb & Knapp, went bankrupt with a debt of nearly $15 million...