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After a $50-per-week job as editorial assistant to Editor Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar, Ali signed on as a photographer's helper and began to carom around New York. "I never had a hi-fi or even a sofa in those days," she recalls. "I just threw a mattress on the floor most places...
...second floor of a brick house rarely runs to more than $40 or $50 a month, including laundry and housekeeping services. Hustling is the name of the game here. This gives everyone plenty of money for anything from soul food at a restaurant called Nam's to hi-fi equipment, television sets or even heroin. Here is how the system works...
...Kings Tavern is being remade into "Minuteman Radio" by owner John Waugh, who will have a mod radio and record shop there. It will open about March 1 with a "Hi-Fi Happening...
...slowly enough. First there were the "come-come" models-twins that shot together at the flick of a button. Soon came the "miracle series," or circular double beds, each installed on a turntable on the floor and surrounded by such inbred in-bed necessities as a TV set, refrigerator, hi-fi and completely stocked bar. Only a handful of fun-loving householders could afford a price range of $1,000-$13,000, of course, but the Western-style hideaway hotels in the countryside snapped up the beddos. Hotel guests were only too delighted to spend $2.70 (for one hour...
...there is the Pegasus, a double bed that climbs three feet up and down; the Seesaw, which makes the bedroom a playground; and the Seesaw Pony, which not only teeters but simultaneously flips a center section up and down. There is an Apollo series, double beds with built-in hi-fi and lighting system designed to create a "mesmerizing bedroom mood," and the Fantasia series, which throws in a movie projector and screen as well...