Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a jury of art connoisseurs gathered in a midtown branch of a Manhattan bank. At that meeting, and four others, dozens of paintings and sculptures were paraded by, and the critics noted their opinions of the works by rating them from 0 to 3. There was occasional disagreement, but works getting more than 14 points were almost sure of winding up in a new home-the 60-story glass, steel and aluminum Chase Manhattan Bank building that opened last month near Wall Street (TIME, May 26). By last week, though the jury still had not used...
...Swainson's request for aid to state universities and colleges from $105,700,000 to $98,400,000, upsetting the schools' delicately balanced budgets and forcing them all to restrict enrollments next fall. Especially hard hit by the reduction was poor but proud Wayne State University in midtown Detroit, which relies almost entirely on public funds, has no endowments to match those of the University of Michigan or Michigan State University...
...resurreced at an air-conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this was one time Gimbel would tell it to Macy's-along with everyone else...
...Rockefeller tradition is also evident in the building's location: when consolidation of nine different Chase offices into one building was first considered, many Chase executives favored a move to midtown Manhattan. But Rockefeller argued for the island's rundown southern tip, set a hopeful trend for New York's congested financial district by insisting that two-thirds of his bank's two-block site must be given over to a tree-lined plaza. Between the new Chase Bank and other renewal projects for which he is pressing (the chief one: a world trade center...
...thin wedge of midtown Manhattan last week, most of the populace seemed to be dancing-or watching. At the Metropolitan Opera House, Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company was playing to capacity crowds, while the waiting line for standing room coiled around the block. To the north, aficionados flocked to the spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just...