Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippie (Dick Shawn) as their star, and attempt to bribe the New York Times drama critic by wrapping his ticket in a hundred dollar bill. To no avail. The show is unintentionally funny, the public floods the box office with orders, and Mostel and Wilder are floated up the river for fraud...
...riverfront. It made news last year when a VC satchel charge ripped it and several patrons apart. As much as I enjoyed eating there, there was an indecent feeling about consuming sweet and sour pork, Carling's Black Label and fruit and nuts while listening to artillery across the river and watching the illumination flares slowly parachute down onto the countryside. It was like watching Twelfth Street riot fires from the roof of the Detroit Free Press last summer...
...provides a direct helicopter service from atop the Pan Am building that hurdles the traffic on the way to the major airports; and it boasts a scattering of private copter pads, including one for the two-state Port Authority. Mayor John Lindsay uses the fire department's East River pier or the lawn of his official residence at Gracie Mansion. Even the meadows of Central Park have been pressed into service for emergency police-helicopter landings and Lyndon Johnson...
Soon the convenience of such close-in facilities will be available to a far wider public. Preliminary approval has been given to Pan Am's proposal to build a new heliport at 61st Street on the East River, which will service both private and commercial copters. Pan Am and New York City are also planning to build a 2,400-ft.-long runway out over the Hudson River between 59th and 68th Streets to handle S.T.O.L. (short takeoff and landing) planes that can carry up to 60 passengers, fly off airstrips as short...
...Americans rely on our machines to do, the Vietnamese do with their hands. You don't have to take Greene's word for it. He shows you. A flood control dam, for instance. One bomb would destroy it. But then we see pleasants carrying buckets of water from a river to irrigation ditches, the way they have always done it. How many bombs will it take to destroy this method, the commentator asks. A railroad bridge is destroyed, and we see women fire-brigade-line-style lifting rocks to prop it up before nightfall, when the trains will roll again...