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Along the crowded counters of Bi-Rite Photo in midtown Manhattan, bargain hunters contend not only with the usual bewildering selection of cameras and lenses but also with a choice of prices for the same item. The popular Nikon FE-2 camera, for example, costs either $279.50 or $239.50. What's the difference? Top dollar buys a camera backed by an authorized U.S. Nikon distributor. For the lower price, a buyer gets the same machine but with only Bi-Rite's guarantee...
...forum that has failed to live up to its impossibly dreamy promise as arbiter of global disputes. But the assembled dignitaries will surely provide a rich spectacle of diplomatic pomp and a torrent of high- minded rhetoric, not to mention traffic jams that are likely to be, even by midtown Manhattan standards, of epic proportions. Worries New York City Assistant Police Chief Gerard Kerins: "We could have days with 100 demonstrations going on at one time and 30 motorcades converging on one spot...
...like no other. The Rockefeller clan connotes wealth and history, power and prestige. That was one reason the public last week leaped at a $1.3 billion worldwide offering to buy a 71.5% stake in Rockefeller Center, the crown jewel of the family fortune. The 14-building complex located in midtown Manhattan includes the art deco Radio City Music Hall and the RCA Building...
Unlike many Broadway composers of Kern's day who scrambled to success out of tenements on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he was born in a comfortable midtown apartment, the son of a German-Jewish stabler. Young Jerry would never be the businessman his father hoped for. Sent out to purchase two pianos, the lad returned with 200. But he must have known his future would have more to do with sitting at pianos than haggling over them. He spent his 17th birthday attending a community-theater premiere of his own musical, a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...media company that is buying ABC is remarkable for its low profile. Unlike the three networks, whose highrise towers constitute a kind of Broadcast Row along midtown Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, Capital Cities Communications occupies a small building a few blocks away. Its corporate headquarters is home base < for only 33 employees, from the mail clerk to Chairman Thomas Murphy. In an industry where pizazz often seems as important as performance, Capital Cities does not even have a public relations department, let alone an organizational chart. Says Murphy: "I've never believed in a lot of reports and memos...