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...stretch of Manhattan's lower East Side once ridden with slums, the clean, monotonously similar buildings of Stuyvesant Town stand as a symbol of housing progress. They are also a symbol of the North's brand of Jim Crow...
...guaranteed Gold Cup purse would probably be the last of the big bonanza races this season. With betting off everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last winter managed three $100,000 races in a single meeting, horsemen were complaining about giving away so much money in one chunk, instead of spreading it around. Cheap horses, they argued, eat as much hay and oats as stakes winners...
...plausible explanation was based on the fact that radiotelephone calls between Montevideo and the U.S. are routed through-and often overheard in -Buenos Aires. Somebody in Argentina might have listened to Uruguay's next-to-deadline bid, hastily asked Washington to extend the deadline, then put in the lower bid. After that, something might have delayed all calls between Montevideo and Chicago until the bidding had closed...
Television might still be a luxury, but 81% of the sets in Videotown are owned by families in the middle or lower income brackets. But the customers were hunting lower prices and bigger screens, and they were not particular about makes. Two manufacturers who had 60% of Videotown's sales at the start of the survey failed to keep pace with the big screen-cheaper set demand. Result: this year their share...
House of Strangers (20th Century-Fox) is a richly detailed exploration of a family vendetta in Manhattan's lower East Side. A kind of Mulberry Street version of Joseph and his brethren, it tells the story of Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson), an immigrant Italian banker, and his four sons. One of the sons (Richard Conte), a cocky, hard-boiled young lawyer, is his father's favorite. The other three are underpaid, overworked stooges at the old man's bank...