Word: metropolitanism
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Discussions of a possible Stones concert Monday at the 4,000-seat Metropolitan Center in Boston also went nowhere, Joanne Prevost, White's director of licensing, said in an afternoon news conference. The rock group also rejected playing at Boston Garden because of poor acoustics...
...competition brought about by airline deregulation, skyrocketing labor and fuel costs and overextended air routes, Pan Am lost $217.6 million in the first half of the year. Two weeks ago company directors approved the sale of Pan Am's chain of 97 Intercontinental Hotels to Grand Metropolitan Ltd., a British conglomerate, for $500 million in cash...
...tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York B & Bs range from $24 to $36 a night for one person...
...Buddy") Hayden, refusing to be discouraged by the demise of two other afternoon dailies, the Washington Star and the Tonight edition of New York's Daily News, predicts that his paper will turn a profit by 1984. "Philadelphia is big enough and vibrant enough to support two viable metropolitan newspapers," he says. The Charter Co., the oil, insurance and publishing conglomerate that owns the Bulletin, plans to pump in up to $30 million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots...
...fails to relate these activities in ways that strengthen each other, and thus it suppresses values that orderly relationships and concentration of uses would stimulate. Sprawl is inhuman. It is anti-human." Yet, Rouse notes, there is probably not one metropolitan area...