Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, where Tut opens on Dec. 20, at the Metropolitan Museum, 900,000 tickets were snapped up in 5½ days in mid-September, and the line at one point stretched 20 blocks. At its U.S. debut in Washington, the collection drew 835,000 visitors, more than the entire population of the District of Columbia. It attracted an even bigger crowd in New Orleans (870,595), and was credited with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors...
...Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., parent has spent over $700 on special SAT preparation courses and private tutoring because she believes that the competition her son faces to get into an Ivy League school from the metropolitan area is extremly intense. "My son needs every extra edge he can get in order to have a chance of getting admitted at Harvard this year," she says...
...oversee the making of some of the reproductions, which are produced by leading art-reproduction craftsmen in America and Europe, he hired Christine Roussel, former manager of the Reproduction Studio of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as one of his advisers. Rockefeller personally supervised the recasting of the bronze objects and the hand painting of the copies of his rare Meissen china. For the reproduction of paintings, he decided against the often used lithographic method in favor of the Cibachrome photographic process, which closely captures the color of the originals...
...passed in the hectic last days of the 95th Congress. Consequently, Citibank and Chase Manhattan have scrapped plans to offer PATS in favor of NOWs, and Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover, which introduced PATS last week, plan to switch soon. Says Robert Lipp, head of Chemical Bank's metropolitan division: "NOWS are less confusing and cleaner. They are clearly...