Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When tax troubles closed his Manhattan watering hole nearly two years ago, Restaurateur Toots Shor, 72, seemed to be down for the ten-count. Not a chance. Last week the Runyonesque drinking companion to personae athletic, literary and political opened the swinging doors of a new bar across the street from Madison Square Garden. "A good saloonkeeper is the most important man in the community," philosophized Toots, whose jampacked first-night crowd included Yankee Manager Billy Martin, ex-Met Yogi Berra, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey and Basketball Commissioner Larry O'Brien. And what had the legendary raconteur been...
Hardly a bobby-soxer could be found, but the silk-stocking crowd showed up in force as Crooner Frank Sinatra, 59, Singer Ella Fitzgerald, 57, and Bandleader Count Basie, 71, took to the stage of Manhattan's Uris Theater. Sinatra sounded fuller of voice than he has in years, Ella delivered her love songs like a woman who realizes she looks more like a schoolmarm than a possible vamp, and the Count, how roly-poly in old age, played only three numbers with his band, which was a shame. But their fans have not faded away. The opening-night...
...Cuts. Those fears were analyzed last week by members of the TIME Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan to chart the probable course of the recovery over the next year or so. It was a spirited session marked by unusually sharp arguments between conservatives and liberals, and even some quarrels on specific points between ideological allies. Republicans Murray Weidenbaum and Beryl Sprinkel insisted that the recovery could keep going through 1976 and beyond with no more stimulus than the Ford Administration now plans, which will probably include acceptance of an extension of this year's temporary tax cuts...
...hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
When Smith describes the hellish hook and ladder chores, he writes with passionate familiarity. But his political drama is little more than a series of over drawn editorial cartoons. The Governor is a gross Manhattan Machiavelli, and the mayor speaks to confidential aides as if he were on Face the Nation: "I am sure you need not be reminded of the hard days we shared in the nearly three years of my administration...