Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers granted Paul Curran will be less important than how aggressively he attacks his job. Those who know him well in New York back him strongly. Says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's Democratic district attorney: "There won't be any cover-up with Paul running the investigation." Michael Armstrong, counsel to the Knapp Commission, which investigated New York City police corruption, says, "Curran's tough enough to indict when he should and tough enough not to indict when he shouldn...
Just before 9 a.m., a dusty yellow bus pulls up to a corner in midtown Manhattan and lets out a dozen black-coated, bearded Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn. Others, similarly dressed, come pouring out of the subway entrance. Swiftly, the narrow, dirty street begins its daily transformation. Pale hands splay rainbows of gems across velvet cloths in store windows, magically making each an entrance to Ali Baba's cave. This is West 47th Street, a tiny world of its own that handles about half of the diamonds entering the U.S. Here brokers play middleman between American buyers...
...make the area ripe for robberies. It is hard to say how much is stolen per year-$1.1 million worth of diamonds was reported taken during the first 2½ months of 1979-because the dealers shy away from police. Says Lieut. Edward O'Connor, commander of the Manhattan robbery squad and a former detective in the diamond district: "It's a very clandestine business. Very few people will cooperate or tell you anything...
MARRIED. Phyllis George, 29, television personality and former Miss America (1971); and John Y. Brown, 44, millionaire co-owner of basketball's Boston Celtics; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
MARRIED. Jill Clayburgh, 34, stage and film actress currently nominated for an Oscar for her role in An Unmarried Woman; and David Rabe, 39, playwright; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...