Word: cosmopolitanism
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...with more than 6,000,000 inhabitants, buildings rising to 30 stories have replaced the one-and two-story shops in the downtown district. Construction on the country's first subway nears completion. New hotels and proliferating offices of foreign firms have begun to give the capital a cosmopolitan accent. Thousands of nightclubs, cabarets, beer halls and bars prosper, as do the traditional kisaeng houses where hostesses entertain tired businessmen...
...Gallery could draw, what could flop? Among those wondering must, have been the original Gallery staff, many of whom have left to found new imitations. Gallery's first editor, James L. Spurlock, a Playboy alumnus, is now at work on Touch, which he describes as "a combination of Cosmopolitan and Playboy"; 500,000 copies of the first issue are scheduled to descend on newsstands in late August. Ex-Gallery Associate Publisher Stephan L. Saunders left to found Genesis, the first issue of which appeared in June. Financed by Rocky Aoki, owner of a string of successful Japanese restaurants...
Cafe life in the Square may not be any Paris in the twenties--rather it is a Boston brand of boardwalk watching, coffee sipping retreats from the Action that play at the cosmopolitan feeling of being above it all. The Pamplona (on Bow St. next to the Underdog) reverberates with the undertones of the heavies, of intellectual riffraff at its most sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca...
...BEING A MIDWESTERNER: I am not in any sense of the word cosmopolitan, but I've been around. I have a pretty good overall feeling about what the [national law enforcement] situation is. I think the goals of most chiefs of police, including those in the big Eastern cities, are about the same. We're all trying to do the best we can with what we have...
...much sex will the market bear? Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown wasn't a bit worried about Playgirl and Viva, the two liberated magazines that have been started up to steal away her 1,700,000 circulation. "The more competition, the better. After all, the pressing question is how to get through the night." Are the 600,000 women who grabbed up Playgirl's first beefcake issue a new breed of female? "No, women are still worried about self-improvement. I throw in the sex, but I try to make Cosmo as much like the Reader...