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Slowly, silently and in single file, 500 New York taxis with "Off Duty" signs aglow last week made the 15-mile trip from a Bronx funeral parlor to Kennedy Airport. In a hearse at the front was the body of Carlos Quilly, who had been fatally shot in the back while driving his taxi, and was being flown back to Puerto Rico for burial. The cortege was a moving protest by the drivers against their biggest occupational hazard: violent crime. Reported holdups of New York cab drivers number more than 600 a year, and 14 cabbies have been murdered...
...small towns than they are in the big cities. Luminescent gigantism in earrings has reached the stage where girls are turning themselves into Yule trees, dangling oversize baubles, including some with flashlight batteries that turn on and off. There is hardly a hostess going who is not somewhere aglow or aglitter...
...Detroit, Mayor Jerry Cavanagh lost his battle with the city's retailers, and this year the annual "Detroit Aglow" ceremony will light off on Nov. 21 instead of Nov. 28. In Chicago, Montgomery Ward sent out its holiday catalogues three weeks earlier this year than last, Marshall Field & Co. will have its Christmas trees up a week earlier, and along Michigan Avenue, the stores of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Assn. have put up their decorations two weeks earlier than last year...
...approaches teaching with the conviction that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo...
Last week, Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery put on display the first Hybrids, their neon tubing aglow as they rotated on turntables like new cars on display. The full-scale models sell for $1,100; compact, desk-sized versions cost $150. Blueprints are available to those who want to build one themselves. There are no plans to come out with a 1966 model...