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...where genteel singers, chiefly female. keep the blue-rinse and cufflinks crowd smoothly entertained through dinner, under a ceiling so high that the usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...
...least 20 new high schools. The 57 academic high schools it has now are so loaded that last year Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High had 6,886 students, or 2,000 more than capacity. George Washington High has five overlapping daily sessions; students waiting for empty classrooms jam the auditorium like commuters in Grand Central. Last year 57,459 New York children got less than a full day's schooling, in effect cutting their school year by as much as two months...
Pomegranate Jam. What Sunset's got is an idealized picture of the West in which the ugly smell of smog is displaced by the fragrance of burning charcoal, and the passionflower vine blots out the sight of the freeway traffic jam. Sunset's horizon is limited to its subject matter, and its subject matter is limited to four categories: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Food and Western Travel...
...Sunset's patio culture, the leisure hours stretch out of sight. It is the magazine's ambition to fill every one of them. The current issue, for example, invites readers to make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine...
Louder & Louder. Not surprisingly, the telephone company feels that this kind of kissing has to stop. It tends to jam up circuits when one beeper sets up a line by dialing his own number and passing the word around. Beepers who use the numbers of local radio stations or weather bureaus make service useless for large segments of the public...