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After three futile attempts to find Chichester, the group gave it one last try. They could not have picked a worse day. They flew through a driving rainstorm and gale winds; the ceiling was 600 feet. But 20 miles south of the Cape, they finally spotted Chichester, making about eight knots under a jib that looked the size of a bath towel. Huddled under the storm cover in the cockpit, Chichester waved. Fuenzalida made six passes at 60 feet. Luton was so excited that he recorded a complete commentary before he noticed that he had no tape in his recorder...
...think anew about taxis. Complaints that drivers are rude, ignore hails and refuse to take Negroes to Harlem are familiar: the police department gets 500 of them per month. What New Yorkers really wonder about, as they try in vain to get a cab during rush hour or rainstorm, is whether or not cabs are becoming scarcer...
...charm as a railroad troubleshooter who comes to town with enough pink dismissal slips to put most of Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
...fond hopes of impending victory in Viet Nam have gone glimmering, China's principal party organ, People's Daily (Jen Min Jih Pao) has had to inject more and more caution about the "upheavals" and "reversals" facing the Communists. "Like a seagull flying in a rainstorm," the paper exhorted last week, "Marxists dare to face boldly the turbulence in the current world...
...season is only now beginning to swing. So far, Acapulco vacationers have included Lynda Bird Johnson (relaxing), Anne Ford (honeymooning) and ex-Mayor Wagner (recuperating). Last week the chic league was further congested by Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, who arrived bringing the season's first rainstorm and leading a glossy swirl of journalists and society's beautiful people-Mary Cushing, Caterine Milinaire, Aurora Hitchcock-on a swinging junket to celebrate his new perfume, Vivara. All of this, on top of a regular tourist season that will probably see 1,560,000 visitors stream...