Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pulitzer Prize, $2.6 million in hard-cover revenues alone, and his share of a much acclaimed television series. But Harold Courlander, 70, a white novelist living in Bethesda, Md., believed the book had more roots than Haley was willing to acknowledge. In Federal District Court in Manhattan, he accused Haley of plagiarizing passages from his 1967 book, The African. Courlander demanded that Haley turn over to him more than half the profits from Roots...
Jeff and Chris are the third and fourth Ridgewood, N.J., youngsters to die by their own hands in the past 18 months. The suicides sent shock waves through the affluent suburb (pop. 27,500), only 20 miles from Manhattan. Students cried unashamedly in school halls and embraced each other. A school official broke down during an interview. Bewildered parents repeatedly asked, "Why is it happening here...
...successful Manhattan lawyer, McEnroe played plenty of tennis as a boy, but he was not raised in the kind of hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...
...square. A lover of Western boots and country music ever since his Oklahoma-born buddy Mickey Mantle introduced him to them, Martin plans to open a chain of Western boutiques. The specialty: boots. His first shop, Billy Martin's Western Wear Inc., opened last week in Manhattan, and Mantle, Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto stopped by to check out the fancy footwear. "It's just a sideline," cautioned Martin, who has a commitment to manage the Yankees again in 1980. To keep in touch, he has roped in all the Yankees to come to a social...
Muppets live in suitcases, and Muppet people live out of suitcases. Jim Henson gave up the key of his rented Mulholland Drive hacienda, with its obligatory indoor-outdoor clover-leaf-shaped pool, and flew to Manhattan. There he rallied the support troops at HA! headquarters and conferred with his increasingly large staff of business people...