Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write their reports, the correspondents returned on Thursday to the officially closed, eerily deserted Time-Life Building, where a skeleton staff was working without air conditioning or normal lighting. An emergency generator installed after the '65 blackout was used to run one elevator and the telex machines. Among those on hand were Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who wrote our cover story, and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote an accompanying article on why it all happened. The senior editors for the whole project were Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who wrote our cover stories...
Whatever the cause of the looting, New York's massive show of police force, and the cops' restraint, helped keep the nightmare from becoming even worse or continuing after the lights went back on Thursday. Canceling all leaves, the department mustered about 8,000 of its 26,000-person force, twice the number that would normally have been on duty...
...evening fell on Thursday, the ghettos gradually returned to normal. On some streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other debris flying out of the gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage...
...owners of the 2,000 stores that were.plundered, Thursday was a day of reckoning their losses. It was a day of sweeping up debris, nailing plywood across jagged, broken windows and pondering whether to reopen. Alan Rubin, owner of the Radio Clinic discount center on Manhattan's upper West Side, told a reporter: "I'm responsible for 25 families?the families of the people who work for me. What's going to happen to them if I pull out? As bad as I got hit, there are other guys who got wiped out. What's going to happen if they...
...Collection, your basic agony-of-modern-life Pinter one-act, continues at the Charles St. Meetinghouse on Tuesday and Thursday. Curtain at 8 p.m., tickets...