Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inward Eye. Politically, Schirmbeck is an annoying cafe neutralist; he indulges himself in an overcrude lampoon of U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question...
...best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...
...Real" society, from Charles A. Munn to the Michael Phippses, had shut itself away behind ten-ton closed doors, but cafe society and show business people were plentiful as palms. Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis turned up as guests of Joe Kennedy, Zsa Zsa Gabor was visiting the automotive Dodges (Gregg and Horace), and a string of parties greeted Jule Styne, composer of Broadway...
Firmly backed by the colonial government, police arrested scores of troublemakers, and the courts wasted no time in imposing fines and warning of jail terms for second offenders. As violence subsided, Rhodesian whites tried boycotting. Throughout the copper belt, cafe owners moaned that their white customers were nowhere to be seen...
...more than 200,000 hot dogs (at 20? each) on a weekend. Summer or winter, Nathan's never closes. Its customers have braved blizzards just to reach a Nathan's hot dog: it is a regular last stop for many early-morning survivors of Manhattan's cafe society. In all, Nathan's Famous sells more than 8,000,000 hot dogs a year. This week, with business running 10% above last year, it let bids for construction of a new $350,000 wing that will almost double its counter space...