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Bank customers also use the TV taxi. If a customer in the downtown office needs to discuss his Brazilian investment problems with the Vice President in Charge of Brazil who is uptown, they can get together on camera and even exchange copies of papers via a document transmitter...
What art costs was the problem faced by Howard L. Katzander and his wife, both members of the editorial staff of the New York Times,* when they bought a house in uptown Manhattan and blithely decided to fill it with antiques. Prices in the antique shops turned out to be unthinkable for them, so the Katzanders started going to auctions. The more they went, the more convinced they became that the buyer is often a helpless victim of chance simply because he does not know what is going...
...palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer...
...than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when "we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
Currently there are six student newspapers on widespread campuses of CCNY, all of which are subsidized by the college. The semi- Observation Post is one of two newspapers put out by day students at the uptown . Its editor-in-chief since February of year has been Peter Steinberg, 19, who is reputation a leader of liberal causes...