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Fish-and-Chips in Soho...
...Freddie Laker's air fares to London [Oct. 10] are still in existence come next summer, it will be fish-and-chips in Soho instead of squid in San Francisco...
Perhaps nowhere is kissing more widely and elaborately practiced than in Manhattan, whose nervous system, from SoHo to Sardi's and on uptown, handles an immense traffic of social signals. But social kissing is also rampant in California, usually in the form of a double peck on the cheeks. Many believe it has gone too far. Says Los Angeles Social Leader Betsy Bloomingdale: "I find myself kissing and wishing I hadn't. You risk being rude if you kiss one person and not another. And there are awkward moments when you don't know whether to kiss...
...special IMF team was sent to London to study the situation and decide what the loan requirements should be. The team members, who lived in a hotel under false names, found anything but a country in the grip of austerity; one night they were turned away at two Soho restaurants because the tables were so crowded with customers. The IMF representatives at first wanted Britain to cut its deficit almost in half, to $9.9 billion in two years, but later settled for the $5.8 billion reduction. Yet, as TIME'S Frank Melville learned, when Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis...
...novels. Dance and dancers represented Celine's ideal of beauty, and McCarthy notes that this was, "ironically, fostered by the popular variety shows of wartime London." But his wandering in such milieus provided him with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded him to cast himself...