Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Pacifica, including obscenity charges, after Berkeley's KPFA broadcast readings of poems by Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and a frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem on the air; a black militant on another pro gram said that Hitler "didn't make enough lamp shades" out of Jews...
...Your listener-nonsupported station") hopes to raise $75,000 in a "May Day" fund drive. KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...
...free air time given to the antismoking messages. It was Banzhafs "citizen's complaint" to the FCC about cigarette ads that prompted the commission to dust off the fairness doctrine. Banzhaf had almost idly come across that "little loophole," as he calls it, while working at a Manhattan law firm. He was astonished at the response from the FCC, which ordered broadcasters to make room for antismoking ads. "All it took was a letter-there were no hearings," says Banzhaf. "Suddenly, I created a $75 million business"-which is what the free air time given to the antismoking messages...
...industry's rather elaborate public relations effort has been something less than smooth. Manhattan's Hill & Knowlton, the world's largest public relations firm, had been tending the industry's image for 15 years, but it quit a few months ago in disagreement over fundamental tactics. Hill & Knowlton had engineered the defensive, low-profile approach, under which the industry minimized its public involvement in the health controversy. That put the firm at odds with some industry chiefs, who thought that it was time for a more aggressive approach in promoting the case for cigarettes...
...Manhattan's renowned "21" restaurant swung open its iron-grille gate on West 52nd St. as a classy speakeasy during prohibition. It has since evolved into a unique American showplace: a restaurant run in some ways more like a club than a public accommodation. There is no longer a trapdoor on the bar to trip drinks into a sewer at the press of a button, but logs still crackle in the fireplaces and a $750,000 collection of paintings, drawings and bronzes adorns the paneled walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others...