Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PALM COURT in New York's Plaza Hotel is a very classy place to stop for tea. Impeccably dressed waiters, who click their heels and stride with the stiff elegance of Russian officers in a Hollywood extravaganza, serve coffee in glistening silver coffeepots. Fragments of blase conversations about grand openings and charity balls and Tiffany diamonds drift above the fronds of potted palms encircling the cozy tables...
...election-night rallies in the fashionable Fontainebleau and Dupont Plaza hotels, gay leaders were defiant and angry in defeat. Some homosexuals hugged and kissed in front of the cameras. One of the leaders was Leonard Matlovich, a Viet Nam War hero and the former Air Force sergeant who deliberately provoked a discharge in 1975 to challenge the service's right to dismiss a man for homosexuality (TIME cover. Sept. 8. 1975). Matlovich led a crowd of followers singing a version of We Shall Overcome and launched into Anita Bryant's favorite tune. Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Paper Chase. Two days later, more than 100 of his colleagues gathered at New York's Plaza Hotel for the 13th Annual International Antiquarian Book Fair. There celebrities like Zero Mostel and Jackie Onassis, substantial as morocco-bound sets, and youths, shabby as prison paperbacks, browsed through more than $2 million worth of books, manuscripts and incunabula. Among the items for sale was a two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, inscribed by the author. The price for this piece of the true Hakenkreuz...
...Portman also built the second tallest hotel, Atlanta's 70-story Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel...
...something like four or five years to make this a reasonable business proposition." Ren Cen, however, was intended not to enrich its backers but to revitalize the city. Here, too, judgment of its effectiveness is premature, but there are already a few stirrings of rebirth downtown. A new riverfront plaza is under construction near by; it boasts an obelisk and a fountain by the noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Part of Woodward Avenue will soon become a covered mall, and streets leading into colorful Greektown will be widened to encourage traffic. The University of Detroit put $5 million into...