Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans last week began getting an unpleasant taste of what lies ahead. Gasoline lines, which once seemed a temporary California phenomenon, were snaking through the suburbs of Washington and streets of Manhattan, and by last week had spread all up and down the Eastern seaboard. Seven states?Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia?and the District of Columbia had to begin odd-even allocation. Independent truckers, who charge that rising fuel prices are depriving them of a livelihood, started a strike that soon led to food shortages, scattered violence and threats of worse to come. Although...
...type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
Eight years ago, this play opened and closed in one night on Broadway. Fate is likely to prove kinder this time, since the production is housed in the intimate surroundings of Manhattan's American Place Theater. Father's Day is nothing if not intimate. Initially, it may have been ahead of its time. Playgoers are probably more receptive now to hearing women talk openly of sexual desires and needs...
...America, Shinagel grew up in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. His parents both had to work, and Shinagel attended Bronx High School of Science-one of the best public schools in the country...
Shinagel didn't like Manhattan much, and dreamed of the pastoral life. He applied to a special Cornell major in dairy farming, only to go through what he calls an "existential crisis" in a mandatory program the summer before he enrolled...