Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where is there greater evil than in Metropolis, the image of Manhattan right down to the grit on the sidewalks? Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) lands a job on the Daily Planet, where he can keep a watch on crime and corruption, and then, with cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial...
...indexed $11.95). The late Amy Vanderbilt, a distant cousin of the Commodore and a sensibly moderate arbiter of etiquette who eschewed the surpassing hoity-toity of Emily Post for a comfortably "modern" point of view, originally published her manners book in 1952, later revised it several times. Tish Baldrige, Manhattan public relations executive and once social secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House, has spent almost three years making further revisions and additions...
...clings to Baldrige. She has been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35, a mother of two, an executive feminist who wears black dresses and pearls, and head of her own Manhattan public relations firm, Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. At 51 she serves on the board of directors of three companies (the New York Bank for Savings, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Outlet Co. of Providence) and writes a weekly column, "Contemporary Living," which is syndicated in some 40 newspapers...
...cannot be said of the means. Over the years, the thrust has changed for the worse. In the early days, the purpose was to guard against abuse by telling employers what they were forbidden to do. Today business people commonly echo the complaint of Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Washington has begun to dictate not only what we must do but also how we must do it." Alfred Kahn, the former head of the CAB who is now Carter's anti-inflation chief, insists that "the best lesson is to minimize coercion. Regulators should be less precise...
...actual costs of producing gas on to consumers, which could mean a further increase in prices from 2? to 4? per gal. In the past year, the average price at the major companies' stations has risen from about 62½? per gal. to more than 67? some Manhattan gas gougers now charge more than 90?. Given the fact that OPEC is about to raise the cost of crude oil again, and that this may add 2? or so to prices at the pump, for most U.S. motorists 1979 will clearly be the year of 70?-plus...