Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whitney's is anything but a student bar. It's far too sedate to attract very many undergraduates and too small to accommodate crowds of youths out to relieve themselves of the pressures of college life. Probably, the regulars at Whitney's--the bar has a loyal local adult following--wouldn't have it any other...
...only hasn't Whitney's caved in to the temptation of serving a student population with lots of money to throw around, it also has gotten along without charging the exorbitant prices that every other Square establishment demands for its liquor. The draughts are good and 25 cents cheap. Mixed drinks can be had for less than $1, and though the drinks aren't all that tall, the bartenders are not stingy with the liquor...
...serious warning about Whitney's: It is a male dominated institution and women who venture there are liable to suffer some mild verbal abuse from the patrons. When the revolution comes--sources expect it within the next five years--Whitney's will be a decent place...
...Maurice Stans, the re-election committee's finance chief, for permission to eat in the White House mess. Haldeman accepted without comment the news that Political Adviser Harry Dent had counseled that President Nixon could break "without undue political flak" an unwritten promise to National Urban League Chief Whitney Young that the Veterans Administration would create $9 million worth of jobs for blacks. Dent had recommended, Strachan reported, that the funds be used instead for recruiting blacks "who can deliver for the President...