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SYMPHONY CINEMA II What's Up Doc 2:45, 6:10, 9:45. A New Leaf...
Mark retreated from Mexico City like a wounded shark and enrolled that winter at Indiana University, the nation's most aquatics-minded learning institution. There he came under the wise counsel of Coach Jim ("Doc") Counsilman, who got Mark off to a racing start by taking members of the team aside and quietly telling them to forget everything that they had heard about Spitz and to give him a chance. Mark soon found himself making friends and influencing people; he was eventually named co-captain of the team...
...Miami Beach the conventions brought not citywide prosperity but a slump in business. The number of politicians attending the conventions did not make up for the number of regular tourists who stayed away. Says Leonard ("Doc") Baker, executive director of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce: "Tourists read about the demonstrations, and that frightened them off." Overall hotel bookings in Miami Beach were off 5% to 10% from last summer...
Hardly any Miami Beach merchants want to be quoted by name about the delegates' spending habits, but they agreed that both blue-jeaned Democrats and custom-tailored Republicans were tightwads. Doc Baker estimates that each Republican spent $35 a day in Miami Beach, and each Democrat $30. To hear some retailers gripe, the Democratic figure at least is a gross overestimate. The average Democrat, grumbles one businessman, "brought a set of underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will...
What's Up, Doc--Park Sq. Cinema...