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...most fashionable dancing these days is done at a discotheque, which is really nothing but a highbrow version of a juke joint plus a disk jockey. But this simple formula and the dancing that goes with it is giving international night life its newest sights and sounds...
...town was New York. Announcing that he had dropped his middle name, Marcellus, in favor of the Black Muslim "X," Clay checked into Harlem's Hotel Theresa, once the Manhattan headquarters of Fidel Castro. He cut a rock-'n'-roll disk for Columbia, passed out free Florida oranges in Times Square, sounded off to reporters on everything from urban renewal ("If I lived in Harlem, I'd move to Long Island") to his relations with the opposite sex: "Like you take a guy cruising along in a Cadillac with $10,000 in the pockets...
...activated by merely speaking the number with eyes closed, then had to be worked by coordinating eye and forefinger, and now, with the advent of all-digit dialing, demand intellectual concentration as well. But wait. A device called Dial-A-Word has come to the rescue. A plastic disk that slips over a dial gives a choice of two consonants for every number, which can then be combined with vowels (which are placed so that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number of the CIA-351-1100-becomes...
...like a battleship. Spanning 20½ ft. from stem to stern, The Grand Mercedes 600 is the world's longest auto. It is also one of the lowest: less than 5 ft. high, it has the low-slung lines of a dachshund. Boasting all the latest engineering innovations (disk brakes, adjustable pneumatic suspension system, fuel-injection 300-h.p. engine), the 600 seats eight, including two on rear-facing armchairs, and sells in the U.S. at $23,000. For the economy-minded, there is an 18-ft., six-passenger model...
...double-breasted frock coat but must also include a white pique shirt with a wing collar, a white pique waistcoat, black trousers with a satin stripe, black patent leather shoes, and a silk top hat. The hat may be stored neatly by collapsing it into a frisbee-like disk...