Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their other problems -finding work, worrying about family left behind-most of the Vietnamese newcomers were somewhat dazedly trying to master their culture shock. As one refugee at Fort Chaffee said: "Conditions are so strange here." Cao Huynh, a 23-year-old student, has just settled in lower Manhattan with six younger brothers and sisters. He is happy at the welcome he received. But he says wistfully: "Viet Nam is still Viet Nam. I still love that country, and I have to go back -if the Communists flee away...
Investigations by Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's office led to convictions or guilty pleas for 27 aides and agents of former President Richard Nixon. Last week they were joined by a former top aide to a high-ranking Democrat. A federal court in Manhattan convicted Minneapolis Lawyer Jack L. Chestnut, 42, who managed Hubert Humphrey's comeback campaign for the Senate in 1970, of accepting $12,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Associated Milk Producers...
...great forearms in tennis," suggested Political Trickster Dick Tuck. "To strain my arm in this would have been foolish, so I didn't." Tuck's comments were a waggish explanation for his defeat in the Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney held last week in Manhattan. While bartenders boosted the spirits of waiting contestants, Actor Peter Boyle, Singer Mac Davis, ex-Housewife Pat Loud and nine others soon joined Tuck in the loser's circle. The women's division championship went to Model Margaux Hemingway, whose vigorous gum-chewing may have distracted her opponents...
...budget protests spread to Manhattan, several hundred Hunter College students occupied the office of the dean of students, and some 900 City University of New York students demonstrated against Mayor Abraham Beame's plans to cut $69.7 million from the school's $702 million budget proposed for next year. At week's end, a dozen Harvard students, reflecting the mood of minority students on other campuses, began a sit-in at the administration building to protest the university's failure to set up a long-promised black cultural center...
...were museum pieces on the move, as many of them are. The Russians' excessive awe of tradition can be a hindrance when it comes to creating new choreography. A striking case in point is Yuri Grigorovich's Ivan the Terrible, which was given its American premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week by a large touring company of the Bolshoi. Grigorovich is probably the Soviet Union's finest classical choreographer, and the two-act ballet is his first original work for the Bolshoi in nearly seven years. Yet Ivan is, well, terrible...