Word: york
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, who helped report the cover story, and Nancy Griffin, who wrote the section on cold-weather fashions, wage their battles to keep warm in New York City apartments. "Undershirts are the answer," advises Griffin. Medina has found a radical solution to the high cost of fuel. Says she: "We don't use the stuff." For the past six winters, Medina and her husband have made do with the 60° to 65° provided by a fireplace, southern exposed windows, weather stripping and heat from surrounding apartments. Says she: "We discovered the layered look...
...beginning to pay off. To tighten the screws on Iran, the State Department ordered all but 35 of the 218 Iranian diplomats accredited to the U.S. to leave the country in less than a week. This will reduce Iran's embassy in Washington and its consulates in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Houston to skeleton staffs...
...remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington that he had been sick to his stomach and was running a fever. At Carter's request, Drs. Benjamin Kean and Hibbard Williams, who had treated the Shah in New York City, flew to Lackland to examine him. They prescribed undisclosed therapy for his enlarged spleen but concluded there was no medical problem that would prevent his traveling to Panama...
Then the city, already infected with urban blight, began to deteriorate. Industries disappeared, buildings were abandoned, people moved out. The Stockton mansion was torn down, and replaced by a gas station. E.J. herself moved on to college, to New York, to Europe...
...special benefit dance at the town hall that was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Women's Auxiliary. They held a raffle, and auctioned off such homey items as stuffed pillows and Lazy Susans. All in all, the citizens raised $5,000 for Fran York, whose Star Ranch was gutted by a blaze back in November. Although Fran needs about $100,000 to get her business going again, $5,000 was a good night's work...