Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before the bombs were hurled. Wait Wanted. Against this grimly appropriate background, a U.S. Senate subcommittee, chaired by Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings, started off an investigation of juvenile delinquency, with two days of hearings in Manhattan on what the Federal Government could do to help combat teen-age violence. Hennings & Co. heard plenty of suggestions-from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, an assortment of city officials-but it was all pretty familiar, e.g., the Federal Government ought to curb interstate shipments...
...Window. Next day the political chorus of opposition swelled to a roar. Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack, a Negro, snapped that "it would be unfortunate if the most recent minority groups to arrive here were to be singled out by being deprived of the advantages former newcomers to the city enjoyed." Acting State Supreme Court Justice Emilio Nunez, Spanish-born, condemned his fellow immigrant, Judge Leibowitz, for an "unAmerican outburst." Missouri's Hennings said somewhat aimlessly that New York was doing a good job in the face of appalling conditions. "New York," said he, "is our show window...
...same day's newspaper was the story of two Negro teen-agers who walked into a Manhattan elementary school, forced a teacher to empty her purse at knife point, and fled while her fourth-grade class screamed in terror...
...joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand...
Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...