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...Stop Lights. Near week's end, Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: "She might well have been an assassin." As for the purpose of the President's stop-and-go entrance into New York, the official explanation was that he wanted no "fuss and feathers." It could...
MAURICE FREEDMAN-Midtown, 11 East 57th St. Twenty-five landscapes and still lifes in oil and gouache. Freedman's brush is bold, and so is his color. Through...
Acting on a tip, Caracas police captured four F.A.L.N. hoods hiding out in a midtown apartment. One of them was a real prize: José Rómulo Niño, 27, a leader in the spectacular hijacking of the government freighter Anzoátegui, the brains behind a $250,000 stickup last August, and trigger man this month in a police station raid that left one policeman dead. But no sooner was the good news announced than the government discovered that nine other F.A.L.N. leaders had somehow escaped from a maximum-security prison in western Venezuela. At large again...
...Piggyback" Discount. At the big midtown newsstands, dealers are returning twice as many unsold papers as usual, and sales are off 12.5%. The fat Times is faring best, say the dealers, with a dropoff of only 5%-not bad considering the fact that it has doubled its newsstand price to 10?. As for the Herald Tribune, which also hiked its price by a nickel, circulation is off-but just how much will not be known until the Audit Bureau of Circulation releases its next official, semiannual report sometime after Sept. 30. "It has held up better than we anticipated," says...
...dresses, sports jackets, luggage, lingerie and baby clothes. On successive days Hassan returned again and again, and a dazed Saks official said, "He's bought in almost every category. You could say he's done practically the whole store." Then the King and couriers swept through other midtown stores like a beneficent hurricane, cleaning the shelves of cameras, hi-fis, records and color TV sets...