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...with Their Wheels. Even Soviet bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya...
...Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...
Omnibust. In Tokyo, when a bus brushed against his motor scooter and the bus driver failed to apologize, Electrician Hirona Fukui, 25, halted the bus by stopping the scooter in front of it, climbed onto the bus hood, walked up to the windshield, kicked...
...deeper the pitchfork slashes into a load of garbage that conceals the tender bodies of nine children. Yet just as often he relaxes the show with a twinkle of sly ecclesiastical humor-"The soul,'' a middle-aged nun announces as she gazes in seraphic innocence at the motor of a stalled truck, '"is about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi brute, a priest struggles blindly to his feet, then firmly...
Hamlet came tooling onstage on a red motor scooter and sat eying three maniacal traffic signs: "To Be," "Not to Be," and "No Entry." He was tossing the skull of Yorick in the air, pondering how to flip his directional signals, when a stagehand reversed the "To Be" sign, revealing the words "To Egypt." Sure enough, Cleopatra appeared and started to shimmy...