Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old New Jersey case was reopened in part as a result of the publicity over the Michigan deaths. Over a ten-month period, starting in December 1965, at least 13 patients died mysteriously at Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, less than an hour's drive from Manhattan. Most of them had undergone surgery but seemed well on the road to recovery...
...sales end next week: before they do, discounts could run to 80%. Then what is left will be auctioned off to other retailers and trade merchandisers. Grant has already vacated its 53-story Manhattan headquarters building. By mid-April, the 70-year-old Grant, once a thundering rival to F.W. Woolworth and S.S. Kresge, could well be no more...
...high noon, high season and hurly-burly last week on that nondescript stretch of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue that is the fount of American fashion. In scores of clangorous...
Shoppers lingered longingly over jumpsuits in gung-ho cuts and colors, carefully fingered exotic fabrics. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, swimsuits and playclothes were selling as if August were around the corner. At I. Magnin in San Francisco, suavely tailored pants outfits and evening pajamas vied for attention. Many of the designs, such as Calvin Klein's apron dress and Oscar de la Renta's rhumba number (see color pages), are deftly droll. There were raincoats that managed to be practical and chic as well, T shirts that could be worn to the opera, sportsuits that could...
Certainly American fashion today is much more than pretty clothes. Says Geraldine Stutz, president of ultra-chic Henri Bendel in Manhattan and one of retailing's shrewdest oracles: "Fashion is a much broader concept now. It's not just from the chin to the ankles. Fashion now means health, good looks, being in shape, good skin, beauty care. It means wine, furniture, needlecraft, growing things. Fashion today means the environment as well as clothes...