Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Manhattan, Dellinger hoped to recruit a delegation that would span the spectrum of the peace movement. After days of negotiations, he settled upon Grace Paley, 46, a New York writer and worker in the Resistance, an antiwar organization; James A. Johnson Jr., a Negro who was one of the "Fort Hood Three"-three Army privates who in 1966 refused to serve in Viet Nam, and Linda...
...bookie. To keep busy in his off hours he took up hobbies (painting, carpentry), and from time to time he expressed the hope that they would help him give up the smoking habit. But he remained a three-pack-a-day man, and last week Loesser died in a Manhattan hospital of lung cancer...
Died. Charles Edison, 78, son of the famed inventor, former Secretary of the Navy (1939-40) and crusading Governor of New Jersey (1941-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Lacking his father's genius, Edison turned his hand to business and politics-first as president of the family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head...
...investors missed the market slide. An Atlanta woman sold her stocks in May and put the $23,000 proceeds into underdeveloped land. "I won't have to worry about it every day," she says. Thomas H. Chmielewski, 29, a business planner at General Electric in Manhattan, has minimized his losses by buying in the Japanese stock market as well as on Wall Street. Last spring he put $6,000 into Nomura Securities Co., an investment banking house, and $4,000 into Ikegai Iron Works, a machine-tool company. Ikegai has risen slightly; Nomura declined, but nowhere near as much...
Usually assigned to play custom-tailored Manhattan executives, O'Neal appears in Stiletto as an elegantly sadistic New York detective named Baker, who is obsessively dedicated to the proposition that Mafioso Emilio Matteo (Wiseman) must be destroyed. O'Neal turns treacherous and vicious with gusto. Wiseman, his eyes dead cold, his face frozen into a mask of menace, looks like a Krafft-Ebing case history...