Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, Birrell last week was still safe -though technically under custody-in Brazil, reveling in the unaccustomed role of a rich-but-heroic David pitted against the ruthless power of a Wall Street-dominated U.S.-Government Goliath. And New York Assistant District Attorney James V. Hallisey, who had gone to Rio to push Birrell back to the U.S., was back in Manhattan empty handed...
...last week Chaloupe had Brazilians convinced that giving up Birrell was equivalent to giving up the Southern Cross. New York District Attorney Frank Hogan exploded, blaming the U.S. embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
...scheme of all is planned by Manhattan's Committee for an International Institute: a three-month language and culture course for as many as 300 executives and their wives at a time. No campus could be more symbolic than the one the committee is trying to buy: New York Bay's now abandoned port of entry for wave on wave of foreign immigrants-Ellis Island...
With California's tourist-trapping Disneyland as a model, showmen have started similar amusement parks in a dozen cities from Denver to Caracas, Venezuela. The wonder is that no one has staked out the biggest tourist mecca of them all: New York. Last week that sure thing was covered as well. Texas Engineer C. (for nothing) V. (for nothing) Wood, who already has five parks abuilding around the U.S. (TIME, June 29), announced a $65 .million Freedomland that will present two centuries of American history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx...
Married. Steven Clark Rockefeller, 23, second son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, former maid in the Rockefeller's Manhattan household; in Sogne, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS...