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...Central Park, (59th and Fifth), and hop in a horsedrawn buggy. The ride is very romantic, and it is one of the only remnants of old New York that is still around. While you're there, hop across the street to F.A.O. Schwarz, the world-famous toy store. You can marvel at the outrageously-priced Stieff stuffed animals, or tinker with the countless mechanical contraptions always on display...
...such relative calm? For one thing, Oceana's rough reputation has always been a bit overblown. The bars are gone now, and the town's businesses consist mainly of a coal company store, a bank, two coin laundries, an AMC-Jeep dealership, Wanda's Beauty Shop, Roberts Motel and a Montgomery Ward catalogue office. "We have no bars, no parking meters and no coloreds," says Frank Laxton Jr., a used-car dealer and Oceana's mayor...
...protest that they are not responsible for food inflation. Since the early 1950s, they have received only 40? to 45? of every dollar that the shopper spends for food. Last year farmers collected $56.5 billion for their products, but it cost an additional $59 billion for labor-packinghouse workers, store clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers complain...
...Arcadias. "The only corn-fed art that was ever successful was the pre-Columbian," Davis snapped in 1934. His own vision of America as subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and ironwork of the past; Civil War and skyscraper architecture; the brilliant colors on gasoline stations, chain store fronts and taxicabs," as well as "Earl Hines' hot piano and Negro jazz music in general." His desire, he wrote, "is to construct formal souvenirs which are an agreeable emblem" of the "speeds and spaces of the American environment." In its voracious inclusiveness (admitting, as subject, anything American from...
...counter drug in containers warning that it could cause cancer"). He cannot fathom American Puritanism but admires the national trait of altruism. He cherishes our chronic forgetfulness and blithering unawareness of history (talkshow gabber to ex-Premier Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, who now runs a liquor store in California: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell us what went wrong...