Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, in a pained full-page ad in the New York Times, the agency felt compelled to accentuate the abominable. The headline, over a list of Benton & Bowies' 801 Manhattan staffers, announced that "These are the people you haven't been able to reach at PLaza 8-6200." The ad went on to explain sarcastically that there had been "a little phone trouble," and concluded with an appeal to "keep those cards and letters coming, folks...
...busy signals, voices that faded away strangely, and occasionally dead silence. "Not only were people unable to get us," says B. & B. Chairman Ted Steele,* "but there were gremlins in the outgoing system too." The troubles began when the agency moved to new quarters in Manhattan covered by the PLaza 8 exchange. It is the first of the city's three fully computerized exchanges-and one of its most overloaded. PLaza 8 machinery gagged on B. & B.'s volume of 10,000 calls a day. Steele's patience broke when he discovered that a major advertiser whose...
...long time, the theater lagged far behind the cinema in the realistic presentation of sex. Until recently, actors came on as fully clothed as if they were lunching at the Plaza. Then, all of a sudden, playwrights and directors decided that nudity was significant, artistic and serious. In 1965, Jean-Paul Marat briefly flashed his gluteus maximus in Marat/Sade. As the marquis warned in the same play, "The revolution of the flesh will make all your other revolutions seem like prison mutinies." And so it almost...
...Arafat's maternal ancestors, who bore the title Maqib el-Ashraf, or scions of the nobles. It was one of a small cluster of homes located close to the Wailing Wall. Since occupying the city in 1967, the Israelis have bulldozed one Arab section to create a broad plaza, and their archaeologists have made extensive excavations to uncover more of the wall, dating from the Herodian period. Recently, the excavating reached the foundations of the Abu Saud house...
October 22: Spiro Agnew followed Muskie into town. After passing through a crowd of student picketers outside the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Agnew told his campaign workers that student dissent was the result of "a lack of contact between teachers and the industrial-business establishment...