Word: nightclubs
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This applies especially to the entertainment industry. The 10% excise tax on nightclub bills and on admissions to plays, movies and sporting events has been repealed-but the customer will find little difference in the price of tickets. The Broadway theater owners are an exception-orchestra seats for Hello, Dolly! will drop from $9.90 to $9.10, for Golden Boy from $9.90 to $9.50. But most entertainment types will be like the Pittsburgh movie-theater manager who moans, "It's been a hard go for us with TV and all." What he means is that he is keeping the price...
...rock-'n'-roll vocal version of The In Crowd on a jukebox, decided on impulse to enter his rendition in the sudden-death singles market. He insisted that it should be recorded not in the antiseptic vaults of a sound studio, but in a living, breathing nightclub pulsating with the infectious rhythmic handclapping and exultant cries of "Yeah! Yeah!" from the audience. The In Crowd took off, to date has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, followed by an album that is currently nestled among the top ten bestsellers...
Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...group of frugging teenagers, egged on by a studio audience that cackles at each doublc-entendre, the ladies quickly become impulse buyers, opting for the bassest voice or the warmest laugh. The reward: a man plus an all-expenses-paid night on the town including dinner, show, and nightclub...
...less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a former stockbroker, has run the rest of Transamerica's interests out of an incongruously tiny (30 employees) headquarters in an unprepossessing old building near San Francisco's nightclub belt. He spends nearly half his time jetting around Transamerica's expanding realm, likes to ask fellow air passengers what they think Transamerica does. "Generally," he says, "people think we're a trucking, bus or shipping company-or 'that airline...