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...spokesman for the Pops, Peter Gelb, said that Fiedler is still planning to conduct the Pops on nationwide TV December 17, which will be his 84th birthday...
READING MATTER. There are some 400 bookstores in Manhattan. There are a few emporiums whose wares cannot be duplicated anywhere else: the Supersnipe Comic Book Art Emporium at Second Ave. and 84th St. stocks bygone comic books; rarer ones, like the first Captain Marvel Adventures, retail for $800 and up. The Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop...
...study was commissioned after a group of Radcliffe mothers staged a sitdown protest at the Manhattan headquarters of the First National City Bank, which handles Harvard investments. Three of the mothers had recently been mugged by drug addicts on Park Avenue between 72nd and 84th streets. When they discovered Fixyou, Inc., was one of the country's largest suppliers of heroin, the demonstration was organized in order to demand that the university sell its more than 2 million dollars worth of stock in the company. Mr. Spock immediately commissioned the present study in order, as he said, that...
EVERY year, the old man orders that his birthday be officially ignored, and every year it is celebrated as a national holiday. Early this week, in the wake of a stinging repudiation by the assembled nations of the world, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was to observe his 84th birthday, and so the presidential office building in Taipei was decorated with pine trees and long noodles, both symbols of longevity. An army chorus of 10,000 men gathered to sing Long Live the President. Some 20,000 others prepared to chant the same message from the mountains of southern Taiwan...
Born in Franconia, Germany, in 1923, Kissinger emigrated with his family to the U.S. 15 years later. He enrolled as a private in the U.S. Army and became the personal translator of the commanding general of the 84th division in Europe...