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...YORK Scattering the Pigeons Once, in a blushing euphemism, they were known as "ladies of the night." Today they are called hookers, and in Manhattan, at any rate, their activities are not confined to the dark hours. Both in broad daylight and the neon night, they flash the pink, orange and purple hot pants of the Aquarian Age, not to mention the high boots that were once a specialty of their profession and are now merely fashionable. In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made...
...Mexico to Washington, D.C., winner take the pink slips-possession of the cars, which, for each of them, are vehicles either of dreams or destruction...
...five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that the novel's thinly fictionalized narrator (whom Proust named Marcel) meets his first love, Swann's daughter Gilberte. The Pré Catalan is much the same today...
Pansies for Tee Markers. The record four-day crowd of 37,598 at the Pleasant Valley Country Club did see some sights never seen on the men's tour: golfers in shocking-pink culottes and checkered hot pants, bouquets of pansies serving as tee markers, club covers knitted in the shape of Teddy bears. As for golf, President Whitworth was the biggest swinger of all. Three-putting only three greens in 72 holes, she won her second L.P.G.A. championship by a commanding four-stroke margin. The $7,950 payoff boosted her 1971 winnings to $26,825, tops...
...because of its flavors that Baskin-Robbins is unslurpassed. The company's polka-dotted pleasure palaces offer 31 constantly changing tastes. Right now, for example, ice cream cravers can commit caloric immolation with Blueberries 'n Cream, Pink Bubble Gum and Boysenberry Cheesecake. There is a newly consummated marriage of Bananas 'n Strawberries, a tangerine-vanilla merger called Tanganilla, plus the usual array of popular holdovers from months past: Caramel Rocky Road, German Chocolate Cake and Pistachio Almond Fudge, among others...