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...copy took up less than one-eighth of a page in the Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking $35,000 (at $3 to $15 a seat...
...Mailer's mayorality campaign well illustrates the ridiculous extremes to which the New Politics' commitment to principle can go. It was a campaign dear to many of the New York intelligensia-a campaign run with panache, with striking, if exceedingly poor, ideas such as making New York City the 51st state. The most visible result of the campaign was, however, to push Mario Procaccino--a symbol of all the New Politics hates--that much closer to getting the mayorality by talking votes away from Herman Badillo, Procaccino's chief liberal opponent...
...traffic-crammed city streets. -, He also suggests that Coney Island be turned into a Las Vegas East, with le galized gambling that would add sizably to the tax revenues. Most of all, however, Mailer has based his campaign on two ideas: that New York City should become a separate 51st state, and that the city ought to be divided into many relatively autonomous neighborhoods...
Snuggled into her cosiest leopard-skin dress, Gina Lollobrigida, 40, breezed into Manhattan to say a few good words for her 51st film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. She also passed some opinions on her favorite topic. "In America, women are so important and so selfish. They become so powerful that they're the equals of men," she said. "In Europe, we act small and stupid. And that makes us appealing." To whom was she appealing at the moment? asked a reporter. "Very many men. I am very generous,"was the answer. "Today, sexy comes from the personality...
Tactical or Political? Another area of concern is the region around Danang, the country's second-largest city and the hub of I Corps. Three times in six days last week, Communist gunners raked allied base complexes in Danang with rocket and mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence...