Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glueck never learned to like a mili tary escort, but he made the best of the situation by picking his guards from the Israeli army's large supply of passionate amateur archaeologists. From the first, his survey showed what he had hoped: that the Negev had been inhabited at many periods of history. It was never thickly settled, but everywhere there was evidence that its population had built up periodically in times of political stability. Then came war and disorder, and the Negev declined into nomadism. Probably its highest point came when a talented Arabian people, the Nabatae...
...only dressed like hostesses). Although prostitution was legally banished in 1958, an estimated 5,000 streetwalkers are still in business, aided by 4,000 inns and flophouses. Similarly unbothered are Tokyo's 34 "guide clubs," which for a 1,000-yen ($2.78) membership fee will provide a girl escort to show the lonely male around town. To preserve appearances, the membership card contains a clause forbidding guide and guest even "to remove their shoes while together." But no rules apply as soon as the guides go "off duty," and besides, as many a client has found, a great deal...
...Stop Lights. Near week's end, Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: "She might well have been an assassin." As for the purpose of the President's stop-and-go entrance into New York, the official explanation was that he wanted no "fuss and feathers." It could...
...Germany's new Chancellor, one of his first decisions was to do away with the Porsche police escort that whisked Konrad Adenauer to and from the office. Then Ludwig Erhard, 66, issued orders that no government official was to be supplied with the new 20½-ft. Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife...
Murder at the Gallop has other notable characters and one--Robert Morly as Hector--even proves worthy escort for Miss Marple. But Margaret Rutherford is a mountain of reassurance all by herself, and in an age of Cosa Nostra it is comforting to enter at least one world in which crime can never...