Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale; he "has a good record on Israel, and Jewish people respect...
Only a dozen homosexuals showed up for a scheduled mass love-in at a park in downtown Manhattan. There was not a policeman in sight to give a care. The once notorious Paul Krassner, a founder of the Youth International Party, sadly watched a crowd of 250 of his Yippies getting stoned in Central Park as a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana. Cops looked on with detached amusement. "People don't care if you smoke," groused Krassner. "It's become irrelevant...
...York as on the red clay of Plains. They attended plays and parties, shopped at Bonwit's and Bergdorf's, held a family dinner at Mamma Leone's, munched pastrami and corned beef at a delicatessen, rode the Staten Island ferry and the Circle Line around Manhattan and artfully revealed and concealed themselves as the press and crowds of curious, friendly people dogged their every step. It was almost as if the Carters were throwing a party and New York was invited...
READING MATTER. There are some 400 bookstores in Manhattan. There are a few emporiums whose wares cannot be duplicated anywhere else: the Supersnipe Comic Book Art Emporium at Second Ave. and 84th St. stocks bygone comic books; rarer ones, like the first Captain Marvel Adventures, retail for $800 and up. The Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop...
Whatever may be thought of them as art, the startling window displays fulfill their commercial function: they do prompt people not only to stop and look but come into the store and buy. A sequence of windows in a Manhattan boutique named San Francisco depicted the suicide of a lovesick heiress: the first window showed her talking on the telephone in the stateroom of her private yacht, surrounded by bottles of liquor and sleeping pills; later ones displayed newspaper headlines telling of her death. The heiress was wearing a silk blouse priced at $125; the store swiftly sold...