Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bound Train." ("My father is in prison/He's lost his sight, they say/ I'm going to seek his pardon/ This cold December day.") Ajemian's reporting was woven into a cover story by Staff Writer Walter Isaacson, who got out from behind his desk in Manhattan to catch Connally in action at some Northeastern whistlestops. As a native son of Louisiana and former city hall reporter for the New Orleans States-Item, Isaacson is familiar with the eccentricities of Southern politicians. "Their style," he says, "is a stimulating mix of the byzantine and the evangelical." This...
...foreign policy objectives in a fishbowl," he said. "I can't sneak around any more." But he plans to maintain something of a private life. Though divorced from his first wife, he spends as much time as he can with his two daughters, who live with him in Manhattan, and his Oxford-educated son, who is in Boston paradoxically training to be a chef...
...equal opportunity programs. Now that they are encouraged to start out in management training programs or go on to study law, medicine or business management, young women graduates are less apt to want to move from campus to a secretarial pool. Says Sheila Rather, an executive with the Manhattan office of Brook Street Bureau of May fair Ltd., a personnel agency: "Business has never accepted the fact that a secretary also wants a career path." At the same time, efforts to attract men to secretarial work have fared poorly, while minorities prefer to take advantage of affirmative action programs that...
...Masterson sprucing up in Dodge City? Gosh, no, this is an urban cowboy on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But the scene could have taken place in almost any American city, east or west of the Pecos. High-stepping city slickers everywhere are discovering that cowboy boots go just as well with a pinstripe suit, a satin disco outfit or designer jeans as they do with a pair of saddle-worn chaps and Levi's. Al Martinez, co-owner of Manhattan's To Boot boutique, has even outfitted an 85-year-old grandmother. Says he: "Sales...
...line of Western wear. Loafers just do not go with a $400 leather-fringed suit. City folks are learning what cowpokes have known all along: boots not only look great but feel good as well. They are also a proud brand mark, explains Judi Buie, 33, owner of Manhattan's Texas at Serendipity 111 boot store, whose customers include Rock Stars Alice Cooper and Boz Scaggs and Actresses Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway. Adds Buie: "For Americans, cowboy boots say where we come from...