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...dimension in concertgoing will unfold with the opening of Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts next fall. Proving that art is not above imitating lower forms of life, the Philharmonic's architects have adopted a favorite gimmick of baseball and race-track clubhouses, enabling ticket holders to watch the main event on television from the convivial comfort of the bar. Furthermore, scarcely a corridor or a dressing room in the 2,612-seat concert hall will be out of range of a television camera. From the subterranean garage, where VIPs will disembark from...
...Pearson and the Liberals who seem to be showing most of the drive and the exhilaration. He frankly patterns his campaigning on Kennedy, talks of declining prestige abroad, and the need to "get moving" ahead. At rallies, Liberals last week had a new gimmick, passing out play money "Diefendollars" marked 92½?, lampooning Diefenbaker's recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar. "Canada has been hurt in purse and hurt in pride," cried Pearson. And he hammers away at Tory "mismanagement''-citing unemployment, twice what it was under the previous Liberal government; six successive Conservative budget deficits, totaling...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Dour Dave discusses Army reservists who complain about the Army, also people who have made millions on a simple gimmick...
...attached to owner's present turntable; an adapter enables as many as four people to hook in their stethoscopes, hover over the set like surgeons on a joint operation. Price: $9.95 > For the far-gone addict, there is suburbia's newest blandishment: the Stereo House, a gimmick dreamed up by Builder-Promoter Al Horowitz of Jericho, L.I. Equipped with Harmon-Kardon audio components, the 1½-story living room features a splayed ceiling to disperse stereo sound in all directions (no more searching for the ideal chair to listen from), is separate from the rest of the house...
...Washington the company's name is Hotelevision, but the gimmick is the same: a repeating half-hour program to be launched at the Sheraton-Park Hotel and the Shoreham late in March. In addition to standard what-to-do-and-see features, Hotelevision will run stock market news, show slides and film clips of key tourist spots such as the White House. Various companies hope to open circuits in other U.S. cities in the future...