Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUNDAY. A mailman handed a special delivery letter for Edgar Bronfman to Frank Vida, the doorman at Bronfman's Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. It was a dime short in postage, which Vida paid and duly noted on the envelope. The letter was a curious two-page, single-spaced typewritten document from the kidnapers, and it contained these main provisions...
MONDAY. Edgar Bronfman left his estate by helicopter to assemble the huge amount of cash in Manhattan. A tape recording arrived by mail at his Park Avenue apartment. It contained Sam's voice, assuring his father that he was well but pleading for prompt payment of the ransom. Sam said he wanted to come home...
...George Gallup in Princeton compiled the new data from his hot, dusty pollsters around the nation, and then at week's end sent his findings out through his network. Ford had fallen a notable seven points in the esteem of the people, from 52% to 45%. Over in Manhattan, Louis Harris was totting up his findings from some 1,500 personal interviews. The general drift was pretty much the same-down...
...Alice Cooper than meets the eye shadow. After a three-week Hawaiian vacation, Cooper came to New York last week and was ... well, swept up in a city cleanup campaign. Joining some 300 volunteers, the rock star spent a couple of hours clearing away the garbage in one of Manhattan's parks. "I'm an old sentimentalist about New York," explained Cooper. That may be just as well. While the singer was away from home, his new $150,000 house in West Los Angeles burned to the ground...
...dressed. And they are holding hands. Has the cha-cha come back? Or is it a funky tango from a '40s movie? Though it looks a bit like both, the step that has restored body contact to dancing is called the Hustle, and at big-city discotheques, from Manhattan's Leviticus to San Francisco's Penthouse, it is causing the biggest swivet on the dance floor since Chubby Checker roared in with the twist...