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...Unaffected were half a dozen other theaters that are off-Broadway geographically (out of midtown) or contractually, because their capacity exceeds 299 or because their owners have special agreements with Equity...
...grainy amateur films featuring fading strippers have been replaced by slick color productions with sound, stories and attractive young models. Each movie is twelve minutes long, but in most machines viewers must drop in a fresh quarter for every two-minute segment. The 69 peep-show emporiums in midtown Manhattan bring in an estimated $5,000,000 a year. Bookkeeping is wildly informal; some distributors split the take with the shop owners by weighing bags of quarters on a scale that they carry from store to store...
...Evanston, Ill., high school, students of English Teacher Thomas Klein shrouded themselves in bed sheets and crawled blindly around the floor. At a body-movement session in Beverly Hills, Calif., participants took turns pummeling a sofa pillow with feral ferocity. From a four-story midtown Manhattan brownstone, the sound of screaming can be heard all day long. It comes from patients of Psychiatrist Daniel Casriel, who believes that such release is therapeutic. In Escondido, Calif., a group of naked men and women, utter strangers, step into what their leader, Beverly Hills Psychologist Paul Bindrim, calls a "womb pool"-a warm...
Died. Alan D. Gruskin, 65, Manhattan art dealer and founder of the prestigious Midtown Galleries; of complications following a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting in 1932, Gruskin earned a reputation as a vigorous champion of contemporary American art; his one-man shows were the launching points for such prominent artists as William Palmer, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arline Wingate and Herbert Ferber...
Despite all this, instant pedestrian malls are only a stopgap remedy. Says Victor Gruen, architect of the air-conditioned Midtown Plaza in Rochester, N.Y.: "Unless creation of a pedestrian mall is only one element of thorough and comprehensive downtown renewal planning, it will not solve problems but merely displace them." Without the addition of parking areas and bypassing roadways, vehicles banned from the inner city will just pile up on side streets...