Word: manhattan
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Deadlines are a fact of life for journalists, which may explain why so many of them are chronic eleventh-hour Christmas shoppers. For instance, Economy & Business Editor George Church, who edited this week's cover story on U.S. retailing in general and Bloomingdale's of Manhattan in particular, is confident that the economy may get "a big boost from holiday sales"−and equally sure that he will not get around to doing his part until the last minute. New York Correspondent Eileen Shields, who interviewed Bloomingdale's executives, buyers and customers, is another committed procrastinator...
Many New Yorkers felt let down and fed up. "I'm tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford...
...hypothesis the police intend to investigate further: that I.R.A. sympathizers in Ireland smuggle weapons and explosives aboard the QE 2 at Cork, where she sometimes stops on her trans-Atlantic route. The illicit cargo is kept undercover during the Manhattan turn-around and then smuggled off the ship when she returns to Southampton. British authorities also suspect that weapons smugglers are receiving financial and other help from U.S. sympathizers, especially Irish-American enclaves along the East Coast...
...grand old party indeed as Conservative Editor William Buckley assembled more than 600 friends and colleagues to celebrate the 20th birthday of his National Review. Among the guests on hand at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel: 1976 Conservative Aspirant Ronald Reagan, 1964 Conservative Aspirant Barry Goldwater, and even a sprinkling of Democrats, including U.N. Ambassador Daniel Moynihan, who is a possible contender for Brother James Buckley's Senate seat. Though his conservative biweekly is now running in the red, Bill Buckley had only the highest hopes for NR as well as Candidate Reagan's chances for the presidency...
...kind of Man of La Mancha about Maxim Gorky, the Russian Revolution and its after math. Add to this some of the folk flavor of Fiddler on the Roof and you get a rough approximation of what a strange and ambitious amalgam is represented by this musical now at Manhattan's American Place Theater...