Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would-be climbers, tightrope walkers, King Kong and New York tourists, it is the World Trade Center, at 1,350 ft. the second tallest building in the world, behind only Chicago's Sears Tower (1,454 ft.). To Germans, the 110-story double monolith looming over Lower Manhattan is a tongue twister: Das Welthandelzen-trum. The translation is of more than casual interest to the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, which in terms of assets (about $50 billion) ranks fourth in the world, after San Francisco's Bank of America, New York's Citibank and France...
Overseas visitors are shrewd shoppers. Manhattan's Windows on the World restaurant reports that they gobble up oysters and clams (as part of a $19.50 prix fixe dinner), which are much more expensive in Europe. Says Nick Lapole, director of public relations for Mamma Leone's restaurant in Manhattan: "The French and Italian tourists we are getting eat and drink rather lavishly and don't care what it costs." Because of all the dollars in their pockets, they are also losing their reputation for being stingy tippers. Rubies, emeralds, sapphires and cheaper souvenirs are being snapped up by tourists...
...visit to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic Nation al Convention. Former Black Panther Bobby Scale, originally the eighth member and now a touring lecturer at $1,500 a shot, did not shout interruptions or end up in handcuffs, however. In stead, the only disturbances at the mock trial in Manhattan's Felt Forum last week, written by Candy Author Terry Southern, came from rock bands, nostalgic slide shows of the '60s, impersonators of Richard Nixon and Judge Julius Hoffman and a re-enactment of the Chicago riots, complete with imitation tear gas. The most notable presence was that...
...scientific meeting in Manhattan, Lowell Wood, a young physicist from California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, delighted his colleagues (although he did not exactly convince them) with a plan to give the earth a virtually limitless energy supply. He suggested tapping the energy of a mini-black hole in orbit around the planet. From a spacecraft orbiting at a safe distance, pellets would be fired at the hole. This would create so much heat that the energy could be converted into microwaves and beamed down to earth. Even Wheeler, who is now at the University of Texas, and his former student...
...Manhattan, it seems as if everyone is rushing off to see it, and all house records were broken the first week. Yet the subject was regarded as so out-of-date that most film makers considered the producers crazy to gamble $3.5 million on it. What is this kinky movie? And what famous male star appears in drag in the title role? If you answer Lassie to both questions, you will be given instant directions to Radio City Music Hall, where thousands of kids are laughing and crying every day at the trials of Hollywood...