Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What do Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller, McGraw-Hill Vice President Wesley Fraser and boardrooms full of other executives, male and female, have in common? Several times a week they pull on sneakers and sweatshirts to spend an hour or so in the company gym, puffing on a jogging track or pumping away on a stationary bicycle. Employer-sponsored exercise is fast becoming an integral part of the workaday world, as businesses recognize that their financial health can depend on the physical health of key employees as well as on the condition of plant and equipment...
When building their own facilities proves impractical, many firms pay workers part or all of the cost of enrolling in independent health clinics. Among them are Los Angeles' Atlantic Richfield Plaza Fitness Center, with twelve corporate clients, and Manhattan's Cardio-Fitness Center, which has Celanese Corp., Dun & Bradstreet Co., Time Inc. and the National Hockey League among its 35 company supporters. The centers offer the latest in rowing, cycling, jogging and weight-lifting gadgets. They provide members with freshly laundered exercise clothing, private lockers and hairdryers...
With today's high prices and soaring sales taxes, peddlers are finding eager customers in such disparate places as the Coconut Grove section of Miami, Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill, the French Quarter of New Orleans and Manhattan's Wall Street. New York City, which issued 5,000 licenses to peddlers last year, actually harbors many more-more even than during the Depression. City officials note that there was a threefold increase in the number of peddlers in 1978 owing to a May court ruling that police must first issue a warning and then a summons before...
Many New York peddlers are new immigrants: Lebanese, Puerto Ricans and Africans who readily translate savvy from bazaars back home to the streets of Manhattan. Their merchandise too reflects a worldly variety. For lunchtime crowds there are Vietnamese beancakes, falafel, shish kebab, natural-dried fruit, roasted chestnuts. Peddlers sell both the staples of daily life (frying pans, long Johns, umbrellas, sweaters, gloves, watches) and the effluvia of pop culture (pot pipes, amulets, incense, beads and bells...
...small part of sidewalk sales' allure is the buyer's happy suspicion that he is getting a bargain on hot goods. Police note that most of the merchandise is legally obtained from wholesalers, but there are bargains to be had. In midtown Manhattan, Carl Britt of Newark, N.J., for instance, sells kitchenware from the back of his station wagon: for a set of pots marked to sell at $69, he pays $15 and charges $20; for a set of dishes marked $22.50, he pays $7 and charges...