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...most happy fella. Take Broadway tickets. In 1953 it cost $7.20 for an orchestra seat to Cole Porter's musical Can-Can, starring Gwen Verdon. The 1981 revival (same show, same seat) costs $30 on a Saturday night. Taking a cab from Times Square to the elegant Plaza Hotel would have cost 60? in 1953, but today it is about $2.20, without traffic jams-or tip. Once at the Plaza, French pastries in the glow of the crystal hurricane lamps of the Palm Court come dear: $3.95 per gâteau, vs. $1.90. To top off the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The High Cost of Loving | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...once the honeymoon is over and tax time comes around, the newlyweds discover that the party is really over. If they both work and earn $20,000 apiece, together they pay Uncle Sam almost $1,700 more than if they had stayed single-making that bill at the Plaza seem like peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The High Cost of Loving | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

After meeting in Washington, D.C. with Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards and Myer Rashish '45, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. Yamani flew to New York several days ago, addressing the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in a luncheon session yesterday at New York's Plaza Hotel...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Security Tight For Yamani Visit Today | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

Under Schubert's cautious guidance, Jesse improved enough in his first year to qualify in the spring of 1976 for the first Short Course nationals at Long Beach's Belmont Plaza. The swimming world had only six months to prepare itself after the diminutive ninth-grader's first performance in a major competition at the end of the following summer, Vassallo swam to his first national championship at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: A Fast Trip to the Top | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...parts of town, the houses are whitewashed and highlighted in brilliant colors. The main sights are the cathedral, the Casa de Pilatos and the Alcazar; in each, you can see the upheavals the church, nobility, and military underwent from the time of the Moors through the 18th century. The Plaza de Espana, a tile masterpiece, is a 19th-century nightmare vision of Moorish construction...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Remains of a Romantic Vision | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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