Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts for a sizable percentage of the firm's $200 million annual revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding. For years, says David Dearborn, director of investigations at Pinkerton's, selling security in the U.S. has been "a little like selling flood insurance in the desert." That is changing: "While the American businessman still doesn't typically think of security...
...best nights of this year's Newport Jazz Festival. The greatest of all such festivals, Newport celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with more than 100 performers in an all-star salute to the history of jazz. From out of the Dixieland past stomped "Kid" Thomas, 82, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Transplanted for an evening from New Orleans' French Quarter, the group played engagingly oldfashioned, banjo-accented favorites and clowned between the numbers...
...able to acquire and then kick an addiction to TV soap operas: "In my experience, the only thing you can quit cold turkey is cold turkey." She notes how hard it is for parents to write newsy letters to their mature offspring: "It's too bad that the kid isn't interested in your bronchitis or the fact that the Chevy broke down on the Triborough Bridge and had to be towed home...
...thanks to Rizzo (Stockard Channing '64), that is, who presents Danny with the good news while he's hanging out at Rydell's homecoming parade with his greaser friends, and Sandy is cheerleading away. Unfortunately, because he is busy being a greaser Danny can't act like the sweet kid Sandy met at the beach, and the romance seems to be headed for the proverbial rocks...
...Muhammad Ali, a friend whom he regards as a potential movie star. But Ali had a couple of fights on his schedule, and Beatty cast himself as the hero instead. "I couldn't see myself as a boxer," he says, "but I had been a football player as a kid. So I changed...