Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northwest to Marseille on the Mediterranean. So is the bulk of the population. Because jobs are far more plentiful in Paris than in the provinces, hundreds of thousands of auvergnats, alsaciens, Savoyards and bretons have flocked to the capital. Its traffic density is even more paralyzing than Manhattan's: the broad boulevards and narrow streets are constantly jammed by cursing motorists. Finding a parking place for one's Deux Chevaux (or even one's motorbike) is becoming as difficult as scaling the Eiffel Tower...
Returning to his Manhattan apart ment one night, CBS Correspondent Hughes Rudd was mugged, robbed and left sprawled and bloodied on the street...
Consider the middle-income Manhattan executive, say, who is invited to attend the weekday-evening vernissage of his favorite nephew, an artist. He thinks he is entering the charmed circle of bohemia. He finds himself in a small up stairs room where dozens of people exactly like himself are sipping watery punch and gabbling uneasily. His only consolation is that the room is so crowded that he can't see the pictures...
Flight Pattern. Last week in Manhattan, no fewer than seven major exhibitions opened on Saturday. The crowds that cruised through them followed an invisible but well-defined flight pattern either up or down Madison Avenue between 79th and 57th Streets...
...certain defendants, to require them to report regularly to court officers and to prohibit them from carrying a weapon or other acts that might bring trouble. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group seeking to modernize legal procedures, started a trend away from money bail in Manhattan, is now offering job training and counseling to some of those who are released on their own word...