Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money. Four state agencies, financed by the dubious "moral obligation" bonds, are in danger of default. If they cannot repay the $1.5 billion they owe over the next three months, they will become another financial drain on the hard-pressed state. To avert default, David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, said federal aid might have to be given to the agencies...
...resources may never be enough. Ironically, a court decision aimed at improving conditions in local jails probably contributed to last week's explosion. Early in 1974 Judge Morris Lasker ruled that the wretched conditions at Manhattan's House of Detention for Men - called The Tombs - violated the constitutional rights of prisoners. New York City could not afford to improve the jail and so closed it down, sending some 500 street-wise inmates to the Rikers' lockup. These transfers and others swelled Rikers' population from 1,036 to 1,879. Today each block holds...
...steady," said New York Governor Hugh Carey, 56, "but I have no intention of doing anything like that." The Governor is a widower with twelve children, and his occasional dinner date is Anne Ford Uzielli, 32, younger daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II. Anne has been living quietly in Manhattan with her two children since the break-up of her marriage to a Wall Street stockbroker two years ago. She and Carey were introduced in October by Phyllis Wagner, wife of former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Says the Governor: "She's interested in government...
...meeting in the Manhattan offices of Architect I.M. Pei last week was a reconvening of the New Frontier. Almost the entire Kennedy family was there (Jacqueline Onassis arrived 20 minutes late and was reprimanded by a receptionist); so were Robert McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex...
...Suvero came to New York from California in 1957 and settled in a rambling market building in Lower Manhattan. From its steep roof, a panoply of bridges, rigging and wharves unfolds. This is his sculptural landscape−as the marble quarries of Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung...