Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed an occasion for celebration. The TV lights and cameras were all assembled one night last week in a crowded 40th-floor suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reporters scrambled for position as New York's stocky Governor Hugh Carey and New York City's diminutive Mayor Abraham Beame marched in and took seats at a small antique table and announced their triumph. After days of negotiation, said Carey, the two had finally worked out a new method to raise the $2 billion that New York City must have to stave off bankruptcy through November...
Familiar Figures. The very next day, while newspaper headlines bannered the deal that would save New York, it turned out that prayer would not suffice. The banks-notably Chase Manhattan, First National City and Morgan Guaranty Trust-which were being asked for new loans, took another look at the familiar figures in the budget and the familiar figures administering them and sadly shook their heads. With that, the solution so happily announced at the Waldorf collapsed...
Died. John Ray Dunning, 67, pioneering American nuclear physicist; of a heart attack; in Key Biscayne, Fla. Dunning directed the 1939 experiment at Columbia University's cyclotron in Manhattan that confirmed the findings of scientists in Germany and elsewhere about the possibility of controlled atomic fission. "Believe we have observed new phenomenon of far-reaching consequences," he scrawled in a diary. Dunning's later research showed that Uranium 235 was the most fissionable isotope, a discovery that led to the gas-diffusion method of refining U-235, currently used in nuclear bombs and most atomic power plants...
Died. Charles Revson, 68, autocratic board chairman of Revlon, Inc., who helped create the $5 billion U.S. beauty industry; of cancer; in Manhattan (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Many closet homosexuals watched with mixed emotions while young gays for the first time fought back during a violent police raid on a Manhattan gay bar in 1969. "I hoped they wouldn't get hurt, but I thought, if this succeeds I'll have to make choices. I didn't want my own covers pulled," admitted Producer-Activist David Rothenberg, 42. It was not till 1973, after he had joined the board of the National Gay Task Force, that Rothenberg pro claimed himself a homosexual on national television...