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...1940s pinball machines and stellar striptease were expelled from New York City by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia -thereby giving New Yorkers two good reasons to visit New Jersey. While sex in every permutation has long since washed back across the Hudson, it was only last year that consenting New Yorkers were once again permitted to play the pins in public. Similar bans on pinball were decreed in Los Angeles and, of all places, Chicago, which is the Detroit-some, say the Mecca-of | that addictive, kinetic pastime. In those cities, as well, the pins have only in recent years returned...
...feeling of look ing at it will be instantly familiar to any one who has looked at the summery Atlantic from a jetty in Provincetown, where Motherwell spends his summers. The blues suggest sea, as the black-and-white configurations of the Spanish Elegies evoke doorways, shadows and leather Guardia Civil hats, without in any way violating their essence as modernist painting...
...more: 7,092. Accessibility: poor. Allow 45 min. to an hour for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($18.50, including toll). Buses downtown ($4) every 20 min., 6 a.m. to 1:05 a.m., then sporadically. Irregular limousine service to the suburbs. Buses to La Guardia Airport ($3) every half-hour. Helicopters to La Guardia ($23.15), Newark Airport ($29.63), daily from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; flights cost less when making certain connections. Five commuter airlines. Parking: adequate. Far-out areas served by shuttle bus 24 hr. Flow Through: good. Curbside checkin. Baggage carts. Eleven architecturally dissimilar...
...GUARDIA. 14.3 million passengers last year. Averages 857 landings and takeoffs daily. Two perpendicular runways, 15 airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 5,803. Accessibility: good. Allow 20 to 35 min. for ten-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($8, plus 750 toll). Buses downtown ($3) every 20 min., from 6:50 a.m. to 1:50 a.m. Irregular limousine service to the suburbs. Helicopters to Kennedy ($23.15) and Newark ($29.63); flights cost less when making certain connections. Parking: sufficient. New, covered, metered parking area convenient for meeting incoming flights. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through...
Died. Alexander L. Guterma, 62, financial wizard who swindled investors out of millions of dollars in the 1950s; along with five members of his family in the crash of his private plane as it approached New York City's La Guardia Airport. An entrepreneur in the Philippines during World War II, he arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican...