Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live 100 years), a traditional song that resembles the refrain, "For he's a jolly good fellow," then kept yelling for more songs. Replied the Pope: "I was the Metropolitan of Cracow too long not to know that the Silesians never get enough." After he arrived at Cracow, his former see, in historic Wawel Cathedral white-clad priests jostled and shoved each other to reach their former superior and kiss his ring...
...come-on for cottages, motels and beaches. So far, tourist centers within a tank of major cities have not suffered appreciably from the gas shortage: attendance at Williamsburg, Va., 158 miles from Washington, B.C., has actually been up, and Disneyland, which is only 27 miles from metropolitan Los Angeles, also reports increased patronage. Businesses in areas that are more isolated, like Las Vegas, the Florida Everglades and Lake Tahoe, though, have suffered. Overall weekend automobile travel in the U.S. is down about 15% compared with this time a year...
...York City is in the forefront of the recycling movement today, after a late start, prior to which it permitted developers to demolish such treasures as the old Metropolitan Opera House, Pennsylvania Station and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The city has now extended historic landmark status to more than 500 individual structures and 37 historic districts encompassing 12,000 buildings...
...first woman elected to city-wide office in New York, Bellamy became president of the City Council Jan. 1, 1978. She won by the largest margin of any city-wide candidate in 1977. She was recently appointed to the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
...Rushmore in Manhattan. Joan Sutherland's face was almost 70 ft. high. Leonard Bernstein's baton was as big as a flagpole, and Baryshnikov finally stood as tall as his talent. The giant figures were all performing on an enormous screen that covered the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House. The innovative sound-and-light spectacle marked the 20th anniversary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...