Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because their chartered buses did not appear. Some bus drivers, half way to Washington, would find a pretext for delaying the trip-one of them actually turned around in New Jersey and drove back to New York because, he said, he was working overtime. A girl from lower Manhattan told me that when she learned her bus had been cancelled, she called up railroad information and explained her plight; the operator told her to spend the weekend in New York where she belonged...
...house is unmistakably Roy's though also a cliched epitome of Manhattan East Side sybarite splendor. Up the spiral staircase one encounters what can only be described as a trophy room. The walls are covered with walnut plaques, shield-shaped generally, though some are rectangular, with gold plates, the gold shellac now peeling away to show the brass underneath, bearing laudatory appreciations from the American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, and even the Rumsey, New Jersey Boys' High School: " To Roy M. Cohn, outstanding patriotic American, brilliant young attorney, fearless crusader, and defender of the faith against Godless Communism...
About half of the weekend canvassers were with us that day in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights. At the briefing session that morning in the neighborhood campaign headquarters, we had been given the necessary politico-socio-economic background, in order to know what to expect...
...only concerned with maximizing the value of taxable property? One staff member in the Mayor's office explained: "The Mayor would probably find that he would have to abolish rent control to encourage new private investment in the housing market. This investment would be primarily in luxury apartments in Manhattan for affluent singles, eventually displacing many poor and moderate income families, mainly from Harlem. We are now effectively paying $50,000 an apartment in development subsidies and foregone taxes to provide public housing in parts of Manhattan. If this same land were used for luxury housing, the increased tax yield...
...immersed in Coco for a year-primarily to have an answer ready for the can-she-sing question. Basically, she is a contralto with a range of an octave and three notes. For the past eight months she has been studying voice in various places-rattling the walls in Manhattan, London, Hollywood and Connecticut. So totally has Hepburn plunged into this production that when the first rehearsal was called on Sept. 29, she swept onstage knowing all her lines...