Word: manhattan
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...correspondent, Robert Ajemian, got his first up-close look at the special tensions and frustrations of presidential campaigning when he covered Dwight Eisenhower's drive for the White House in 1952. He recalls one occasion when an exhausted Ike roundly chewed out some of his aides on a Manhattan street after fumbling an important speech because of a glitch in a TelePrompTer machine. Having witnessed similar episodes in other campaigns-as correspondent, political editor and later assistant managing editor at LIFE, Ajemian confesses: "I admire politicians enormously. They are the best of the survivalists. They get battered and second...
Imperialist Ideology. American Jews were even angrier. At a mass rally in Manhattan, 40,000 people waved Zionist banners, sported buttons proclaiming I AM PROUD TO BE A ZIONIST and hoisted placards charging that the U.N. had succumbed to Nazism. Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin cited the Arabs' long involvement in the African slave trade. "Shame on them!" thundered Rustin. "[They] are the same people who enslaved my people...
...looking for sympathy, however, and he boils at suggestions that he should retire. "It's tiresome as hell to lose, but I still enjoy the game." He has retreated from the glitter of Manhattan's night life and rents a house in a quiet neighborhood of Garden City, a Long Island suburb. "I've only been to New York City once in the past eight weeks -the traffic's too damn bad," says Namath. But not as rough as the Sunday traffic on the field...
...shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when the Rockefeller Foundation offered to be his angel. New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp volunteered free space at the Estelle Newman Theater in downtown Manhattan. Eighteen months ago, the new Eliot Feld Company opened for business...
Wistful Hopes. Kennedy's Children is an incisive portrait of that sadly lost generation's wistful hopes and bewildered and embittered disenchantment. It is more of a documentary than a play. In the mandatory "confessional" bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1974, five representational figures address monologues to the audience. They never at any time speak to or relate to each other, except that they all bear the scars of the '60s wars...