Word: diner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From then on the facts are hard to come by, but according to witnesses, Co-Star Robert Mitchum, 50, bounded to his feet and smothered Mia with a kiss-so all-consuming that Mia allowed her dangling cigarette to burn a hole in the suit of a somewhat wobbly diner. "I don't like that!" he protested, staggering to his feet and menacing poor Mia. Neither did Mitchum, who plastered a plate of salad on the Dutchman's face. In return, the gentleman heaved a salad at Mia. Before the waiters broke up the festivities...
...François Mitterrand. With support from leftists and independent deputies, Mitterrand hopes to persuade the National Assembly to repeal it. His chances are only fair, and meantime Frenchmen must watch themselves. Aimed at ever more ridiculous targets, the 87-year-old law was recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street for shouting "Hou! Hou! (Boo! Boo!)" at a passing presidential motorcade...
...hadn't had a belt for an astonishing nine months, ever since he took a dive on a Washington hotel floor last March and broke his hip. "I vowed not to take a drink until I could stand on my own two feet," Toots graveled in his Manhattan diner. But now that he can stand, he's making up for all the lost weekends he lost. "I missed about 30 cases in those nine months," said Toots, happily pouring down Pantagruelian shots of brandy. "I wouldn't be able to estimate how many bottles...
Goggle-Eyed Cops. At dawn on the day of the planned raids, New York City cops swooped down on Goldy's Diner in South Ozone Park, Queens, and arrested six coffee drinkers who claimed that they were simply going hunting with the grenades, pipe bombs and rifles in their car. At the same hour, another platoon of policemen moved in on a Westchester County country house, which was flying a U.S. flag with 13 stars not far from its hillside fallout shelter; they found enough arms to fill a truck. In Syracuse, Brewerton, and Bay Shore, L.I., officers flushed...
...used to long and lonely meditations. Still another prison saint was Dick Rogers, a former British soldier. An alcoholic, he proved to be virtually the only man who could be trusted to guard the communal food store without stealing anything for himself. Nonetheless, writes Gilkey, "Many a pious diner, whose ration of food depended on Dick's strength of character, still thought of him as immoral because he drank...