Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom had been a record $16 million. "The astronomical sums reported in the press only provide free advertising and promotion for this new kind of economic enterprise," he said. Bachelor Bulgari, an occasional escort of Gina Lollobrigida and Candice Bergen, then added: "Even if I am wealthy, that doesn't mean to say I am as rich as many have written." Not any more, at least...
...evacuate Vietnamese refugees to the south. Four aircraft carriers are in the area: the Hancock, the Coral Sea and the Midway are in the South China Sea; the Enterprise is at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Last week 2,200 Marines were deployed to the four carriers and their escort ships...
...reasons, couldn't fly. It worked. Other entrants dressed in priestly garb, and there were other methods as well. (I knew of one fellow, who although he never heard of this race, went across the country in an ambulance at 110 mph. At one point he got a police escort to the nearest hospital, and managed to lose the car at an interchange...
...Faulknerian family--auto racing is a crass sport and Snopes symbolizes pretty well a lot of what most auto racing is like) Racing Team, managed to finish with a flourish in 44 hours. According the B & S co-driver, a racing photographer, the mobile home hired a police escort from the county line to the finish for the standard rate of $75 thus missing all the red lights and other foulups that might beset other less well-planned entries. "There we were," said Parker, "fugitives from several state governors, finishing up an illegal and supposedly-a menace-to-society race...
...crew, released him on $5,000 bail, and ordered him to stay in Denver. Police may now regret that decision. Upon his release, the grounded writer ran straight into a minor altercation at a coffee shop, then was arrested again for directing "filthy language and verbal abuse" at an escort-service receptionist. If Wexler ever gets out of Denver, it just may be on foot...