Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one morning last week, a group of young choirboys marched on their way to a picnic, hopping gaily and singing Nearer, My God, to Thee. The rest of the city was not so blithe. In the third day of a wildcat sanitation workers' strike, mounds of garbage were rising on the sidewalks, rotting in the July heat. At night, especially in the slums of the South Bronx and Harlem, trash fires flickered and fumed in the streets like smudge pots-and, of course, there were not enough firemen to cope. "Fun City? Fear...
They met several weeks back, danced at a Manhattan discothèque, and he invited her to his home for a drink. With Husband Mick Jagger on the road with his Rolling Stones tour, Bianca Jagger, 30, last week took Jack Ford, 23, up on his invitation. Jack's home, of course, is the White House, and Bianca arrived with Artist Andy Warhol and plans for a Jack Ford story in Warhol's Interview magazine. "This must be the meeting of the Weird Washington Photo Club," joked the President's son nervously as Andy, Bianca and White...
Early in 1973, Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn went to a party at the Manhattan home of Barbara Walters, queen of NBC's morning Today show. Quinn noticed that her hostess's bedside alarm clock was set for 4 a.m. "If they paid me a million dollars, I would never accept Barbara Walters' job," she told a friend that night. "That is simply no way to live...
These two one-acters are hilariously extended anecdotes in the U.S. tradition of the tall story. Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur...
Further Research. For the time being, at least, ERDA is not advocating a federally financed Manhattan Project for the development of any single new source of energy such as solar power-a decision that will draw fire from environmentalists. Although ERDA expects to spend about $1.5 billion over the coming year on further research into such promising power sources as coal gasification and geothermal and solar generating plants, the agency is opposed to an all-out federal development effort that is focused on one or two energy alternatives. Instead, ERDA is persuaded that Washington can encourage a broader and more...