Word: scootering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reginald I. Bradlee II '64-4 of Kirkland House and Winchester, Mass., was killed Saturday morning in a motor scooter accident...
Debbie, singing in her own small, true voice, plays your typical modern nun-mascaraed lashes, tweezed eyebrows and lipsticked smile facing the wind as she steers her motor scooter around the Belgian countryside. To give Sister Smile's simple story some plot, if not taste, the singing nun is furnished with an old boy friend (Chad Everett) who makes her a recording star and an international celebrity, then tries to persuade her to renounce her vows...
Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
Died. Enrico Piaggio, 60, Italy's Vespa king, a wartime aircraft manufacturer who revolutionized European road travel with his 1946 development of a low-cost motor scooter that now sells in more than 120 countries; of peritonitis; in Varramista, Italy...
John Shaw did some conventional flying between his Hong Kong base and Bangkok, where the going was less conventional. There, his means of locomotion included a motor samlor (popular Thai vehicle made up of a pedicab body hitched to a Vespa scooter), a motorized sampan and a Bangkok banker's air-conditioned Jaguar...