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After a futile two-day effort to renew his visa in New Delhi, Romeo Rossellini, inexplicably driving around in a car belonging to the husband of his girl friend, managed a Bombay getaway only after a member of India's Parliament asked him pointblank: "Are you sleeping with Sonali?" The hesitant answer: "No." Brother and sister, sort of? "I wouldn't say that, either...
...Benjamin Jones (who really was president of Northeast Mississippi Junior College), got himself a job as lieutenant of the guard in Texas' Huntsville Penitentiary. There, a prisoner recognized Ferdinand as the subject of a 1952 LIFE article on "The Master Impostor," but the agile fraud made a quick getaway...
...join him, Kadar or no Kadar. While the delegates talked to her, the crowd outside burned the banner with its Kadar effigy, stamped on it, spat on it. The cry rang out: "Menjetek a pokolba" (Go to hell!). Only fast work by their driver saved the Communists on their getaway. Again, screaming refugees leaped on the car and pelted it with mud as it sped off. Two days later, pleading "so few" applicants, the repatriation delegation called off all further camp visits...
...Comfort. In Liberty, Mo., after they found Motorist James Denoff sweating over a stalled car, pushed it for him, waved him on his way, Officers Jack Corum and Donald Morris learned that Denoff had stolen the automobile, was using it for his getaway from a supermarket robbery...
...climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start, Callas took the knife from the table, furiously plunged it into Scarpia's chest, then, her head waggling insanely, unable to look directly at the corpse, she placed the candles at his shoulders and made her getaway...