Theytreat theplaza like their own backyard. Some weave in and out oftablesplayinghide and seek. Others are involved in a gameof soccer between thenewspaperstandandthetobaccoshop.
The first is that, beginning with a 1953 meeting in New York's Plaza Hotel, the tobacco companies' heads agreed to stand together to deny any damage to health done by cigarettes, despite evidence that had already begun to mount.