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Among U.S. tourists, the hardest hit is the specialist in out-of-the-way restaurants, anxious to show his friends that little place he discovered two years ago last spring. The doorman whistles for a taxi, then sadly reports: "I'm very sorry, monsieur. So many taxi drivers are en vacances." Conveyed to the address by a limousine, hired at three times the normal price, the tourists are apt to find the restaurant tightly shuttered and a big sign saying: "Fermeture annuelle." On the fourth try they may find one open, though the regular chef is "en vacances...
...enter the building crowded between Lamont and Widener Libraries, one must first get past the watchful, wary doorman. Some special displays are behind locked show cases, but most books are in the reading room, which the person at the circulation desk can open only by a special switch. If the building seems more like a bank vault than a library, it is because it was planned to preserve perfectly every inch of every book in the collection. Constantly clicking machines check the temperature and humidity, and ultra-violet devices, microscopes, and micro-film viewers aid scholars in doing research...
Almost every morning, a slim figure in a polo coat, leading a small black poodle on a leash, emerges from one of Manhattan's cliff houses on East 66th Street. The doorman gives her a cheery "Good Morning, Miss Kelly." But outside, no head turns. For in her low-heeled shoes and horn-rimmed spectacles, Actress Grace Kelly is all but indistinguishable from any other well-scrubbed young woman of the station-wagon set, armored in good manners, a cool expression, and the secure knowledge that whatever happens, Daddy...
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...Rome Opera House puts great stress on some kinds of decorum: the doorman turned famed Composer Igor Stravinsky away one night last week because he was not in formal dress. But Romans have no rules against hoots and whistles during a performance that fails to please them. Boulevard Solitude, a muchdiscussed, three-year-old opera by a 27-year-old German named Hans Werner Henze, went against the grain that night and drew a record outburst...