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Thus it was with considerable incredulity last week that New York's taxi masochists learned that one of the biggest fleets in town, called Helen Maintenance, had hired Designer Carleton Varney to refurbish its taxis in Holiday Inn splendor. The company's 104 Checker cabs will have green-and-white checked vinyl-covered seats, red tweed weather-resistant carpeting, solid green jump seats and matching interior walls. Seat belts will be bright red and ceilings will be painted blue-with an occasional white cloud and colorful bird -symbolizing, no doubt, New York's sky-high fares. Says...
...failing. In any case, the Carnival does not have enough snow to ski at Dartmouth. Howard Chivers, manager of the Skiway, said "this certainly is the worst winter for ski conditions in my memory. We have nothing on our slopes that could be called a base. It's a checker board of bare ground and ice patches...
...Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called the twist." Now Chubby is doing a little thing called hawking an LP of The Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll...
Besides stimulating profits and memories, the mail-order LPs have revitalized some lagging careers. After Chubby Checker's plug for the rock-'n'-roll collection began appearing on TV, his popularity zoomed, enabling him to boost his fee for a nightclub date from $500 to as much as $5,000 a night...
...lemonade stand run by a Chicago bank until she was able to land a job as a service clerk in a grocery store near her home in Elmhurst, Ill. "The pay stinks," says the College of DuPage sophomore, "but I hope to work my way up to being a checker...