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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 17, 1964
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New York City Offers Much To World's Fair Visitors
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Many of the 70 million visitors expected to come to the New York World's Fair during the next two years will be making their first trip to the Big City on the East Coast.
It has operas, concerts, ballets, art shows and similar cultural activities. It has horse racing (flats and trotters), two big league baseball teams (if you include the Mets), the football Giants and Jets, boxing, international soccer matches and even cricket and hurling games.
First-timers can collect extra dividends by arranging itineraries to include some of the countless attractions in the metropolitan area. Probably no other city in the world can offer as many.
NEW YORK CITY is the fun fashion, food and financial center of the United States. It has more theaters, movies, museums, restaurants, hotels, night clubs and other places of entertainment than any other city.
There are public golf courses and tennis, handball and ping pong
courts. There are swimming, fishing, boating and other water sports in the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound. There are sumptuous bowling centers and billiard parlors.
THERE ARE PARKS where you can play checkers or chess, pitch horseshoes or roll a game of hooji
You can go horseback riding in the center of the city (Central Park) or relax in a horsedrawn carriage complete with fringe on top. You can eat at sidewalk cafes in Times Square (if you don't mind the gas fumes and noise), grab a hotdog, pizza or hamburger at a quick-lunch counter or street pushheart, enjoy an espresso in an arty Greenwich village cafe, or dine to the strains of a string orchestra in the swanky Hotel Plaza.
Dining out can be an adventure — every type of cuisine from Creole to Continental is available. There are French, Italian, and German restaurants rated among the tops in the world.
There are Chinatown, Little Italy, Harlem and communities of Scandinavian, Irish, Russian, German
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THE CITY OF New York is comprised of five boroughs, but only the Bronx is on the mainland. Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) are on islands.
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siana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, six New England states, New Mexico, New York (city and state), Oklahoma, Oregon, New Jersey, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
and other European and Middle and near Eastern peoples where cafes and restaurants offer old country dishes at more moderate prices.
The boroughs are linked by bridges and/or vehicular and subway tunnels. (Don't, if you can help it, drive or ride the subway or buses during the morning or evening rush hours.) Ferries run between Richmond and Manhattan and Brooklyn
Here are some of the top attractions for adults and children by boroughs:
Fair officials insist it will, but traffic commissioner Henry A. Barnes, who has long been at odds on the matter with Robert Moses, is already wondering what might happen Sunday when 50,000 people will be going to and from the new municipal sports stadium near the fair site, with perhaps a million people going to the beach and 400,000 or more inside the fair grounds.
Much of the traffic will be going back into Manhattan via existing bridges or tunnels, Barnes points out.
Manhattan— The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History. The Empire State and RCA buildings. Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Fifth Avenue and Broadway — still the Great White Way.
WHEN THE FAIR finally swings open its gates (there'll be eight of them) drivers will find out at last whether the new $124 million arterial transportation system will be able to handle the loads on the expressways.
Many parking lots in Manhattan already have upped their rates in anticipation of the fair but Barnes advises motorists it will still be wise to leave their cars in Manhattan and take the 15-cent subway ride out to the fair grounds — the Transit Authority will have special trains running
Visitors Bureau to recommend overnight accommodations, and within a radius of 35 road miles of the fair 380 hotels and motels with about 100,000 transient rooms have agreed that their rates during the fair seasons will not exceed their regular rates.
A SPECIAL HOUSING reservation office has been set up by the New York Convention and
Among the fair's huge structures only the heliport, the Hall of Science and the steel skeleton Unisphere of the earth (symbolizing the fair's theme: "Peace Through Understanding") will survive. The rest will be torn down.
The Hudson River piers where the world's biggest liners dock.
Bronx: The Bronx Zoo, one of the world's largest with nearly 3,000 animals, birds, and other species of fauna.
The famed Botanical Gardens. Yankee Stadium. Freedomland, a 205-acre entertainment center laid out in the form of the continental United States.
Brooklyn: Coney Island for swimming in the Atlantic Ocean and the Steeplechase Amusement Park with its parachute jump.
The New York Aquarium, the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
Queens: The John F. Kennedy International airport. The new William Shea Stadium and Casey Stengel's Mets. And, of course, the World's Fair.
BUDAPEST, Hungary—In a cemetery outside Budapest, a headstone reads: "My big boy, age 18, 1956."
It was a mother's final word of endearmment for an only son, one of the thousands who died in the holocaust of 1956 when the Hungarians rose up against Communist rule and fell beneath the treads of Russian tanks.
And there, over a dish of chocolate cake smothered in whipped cream, a non-Communist young woman is asked if freedom of political discussion is now permitted.
Yet, even a short visit to Budapest confirms that times have changed and that a measure of gaiety has returned to this ancient city astride the Danube.
ATOP CASTLE hill close by the one-time seat of Hungarian royalty is a building which in the 15th century housed Budapest's first printing firm. Today it is a coffee house.
She shrugs and replies. "We do not discuss it anymore. Instead we make jokes." And it is a fact that in Budapest there is a nightclub featuring an act devoted to political satire, not all of it directed against the West.
"HOW ABOUT the young intellectuals who sparked the 1956 revolt?"
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"Oh, they still complain, but now it is because they cannot get Italian shoes." And the young woman laughs.
The relaxation brought about by the regime of Janos Kadar, for whatever its reasons, evidences itself in other ways, including such touches of capitalism as the tip for services rendered.
The taxicab driver smiles a little more pleasantly when a tip is added to his fare.
THE GYPSY violin player in a state owned restaurant plays with
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a bit more spirit when a 100-florin note is slipped in his pocket.
These things the regime looks upon with tolerance.
Hungary's trade at the moment is almost wholly within the East Communist bloc. But for certain of its amusements and its luxuries it continues to look to the West.
In the shops, better stocked than in most Eastern countries, are French perfumes and English wool-lons. A few still are privately owned.
IN THE BUDAPEST Tancpalota,
a dancing palace, also state-owned,
a slender, dark-haired girl sings
Alexander's Ragtime Band.
When she is finished, the band swings into action for the dancing
"Before 1956," one said, "we could not have Gypsy music or coffee houses. We could not even be Hungarian."
one dancer. And on the dance floor, they dressed young dancers, the girls with upswept teased hair-dos go into . twist . twist . twist .
Mouthful
NEW YORK — (UPI)— To show children how to brush their teeth properly, a New York dentist uses a giant-size set of teeth about four feet in diameter with huge toothbrush and collapsible tube to match. The youngsters are kept amused by the out-size toothbrushing tools while the dental hygiene fundamentals are stressed.
WESTERN OBSERVERS credit the change in Hungary in part to the 1956 revolt which frightened Communist rulers into the knowledge that a relaxation of iron rule was necessary to prevent widespread revolt, and to a desire for the hard currency brought in by tourists.
Certainly the Kadar regime is no less Communist than the one which preceded it and in the leaders' minds there must be a question as to how far this relaxation can be permitted to go. But for the Hungarians it is a welcome change.
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