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...Vegas got a piece of the action. When choreographers found they could not attract all the dancers the show needed from California ranks, they had to reach out. They also had to appeal to patriotism because the pay for out-of-town dancers was only $500 plus free room and board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they...
...Marketing Management magazine calls median household after-tax "effective buying income" ($23,655), yet it is first in retail sales. New Yorkers spend 37% of their effective buying income on retail goods; Angelenos spend 48%. In 1982, in Beverly Hills, where the figure has to be skewed by out-of-town buyers, $143 million was spent on clothing, $72 million on cars, $96 million on general merchandise and $64 million on dining out. Also that year, $2.5 billion was spent in the metropolitan area's 16,672 eating and drinking establishments. At one shopping center alone, albeit a good...
...Francisco is beautiful, vivacious. San Francisco is physically dramatic. San Francisco is funky but clean, elegant but spunky. San Francisco is tolerant of crazes (beatniks, hippies, microchip venture capitalists), yet preserves the old (cable cars, Victorian follies). If an out-of-town churl dares suggest that the city may be too cute for its own good, he is politely ignored. But disparagement by outsiders is uncommon: ever since the Democrats announced last year that they would hold their convention in San Francisco, politicians and journalists have savored the prospect. The city's high spirits are contagious and self-justifying...
...Finn of Out-of-Town News in Cambridge describes the onslaught as "non-stop" "All kinds [of people] are playing who have never played before," he adds...
Yesterday, a line of about five or six people stretched through Out-of-Town News during most of the afternoon, waiting to buy tickets Most of the purchasers were newcomers, many spent five minutes attempting to understand the instructions written on the tickets...