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...editorial staff at the Time & Life Building in midtown Manhattan was heading home, the work of Manufacturing and Distribution was far from finished. With an impressive network of messengers put together by Ruth Pouliot, corporate operations manager for TIME, black-and-white pictures were rushed to the production office in lower Manhattan. She also hired a helicopter to shuttle color photos to an engraver on Long Island. Finally, the finished pages were flown or electronically transmitted to all 15 printing locations in the U.S. and overseas. By 8 p.m. the first presses were running. And by Thursday morning, TIME...
...ordered the state to leave D'Arrigo's property alone. Back in Manhattan, Carey presumably lifted his spirits by planning to move himself-and two state police guards -into a new $500,000 duplex apartment on Park Avenue, more spacious than his current digs in a midtown hotel...
Three years ago the South Bronx became much more than a decaying inner-city neighborhood. On October 5, 1977, a motorcade of black limousines normally used to shuffle New York's elite around midtown Manhattan brought Jimmy Carter to Charlotte Street. And as Carter gazed at crippled tenements and mounds of garbage, the South Bronx became a symbol of the devastation of America's inner cities...
...149th Street, in the Hub, one of the South Bronx's two largest commercial districts, there's a traffic jam ten hours a day. Cars are double parked, and people mill around on a street as crowded as any in midtown-Manhattan. Fordham Road is even busier. The Alexanders and Loeman's department stores are jammed with frenetic bargain hunters...
Every morning, Wilkie arrived at Carter convention headquarters in midtown Manhattan in search of political dope. Cabinet officers were practically begging to be interviewed, but Wilkie and most experienced Washington hands studiously ignored them, figuring they knew less than the press did. Many reporters dutifully attended formal briefings on the platform planks, but with little enthusiasm. After a session with Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief domestic adviser, one reporter was left behind snoozing in his chair...