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...history of the human race. Even oldtime Manhattanites have been startled into a sharp awareness of their city's dramatic angularity and inexhaustible enterprise as they peer at it from their new tower offices, or come upon an open plaza where once there was only a narrow sidewalk...
...might really be a masquerading policeman. Inspired by the success of St. Louis police with similar tactics (TIME, Aug. 24), Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy initiated Operation Decoy as a new means of fighting New York's soaring crime rate, which nightly leaves bleeding victims sprawled on the sidewalk...
...Essex Inn, which is decorated with paintings of nude ladies and boasts a circular bed surrounded by a curtain of beads, or in Room 908 in Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where patrons may munch such Continental delicacies as escargots and bouillabaisse Marseillaise ($4.25), served by bus boys and bellhops in jockey silks...
...butcher outside his shop in Spoleto, Italy, leans against an ancient Roman wall topped by an abstract angel of golden bronze. Women in rusty black shawls on their way to Mass at the Church of San Domenico step gingerly past a giant iron spider. Families sipping Campari in a sidewalk cafe ponder a guitar cut from steel and mounted on a flatcar. All over town, modern sculptures of bronze and steel and iron loom over fountains, peer from alleys (see color}. Now that the initial shock is wearing off, the Spoletani are getting used to and even beginning...
Shiny cars clogged West Berlin's broad Kurfürstendamm, while pedestrians window-shopped at fancy stores or looked for an empty seat at one of the many sidewalk cafes. Tourists were flocking in as never before, and savings accounts were at the record level of $366.5 million, $20 million higher than in early August last year. Although West Berlin's industry was beginning to feel the effects of the tapering West German economic boom, there were still job vacancies for 29,000 workers. The panicky exodus of thousands from West Berlin in the days immediately after...