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Word: scootering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Tran Van Huong was going home to lunch, and the motorcade that assembled to take him to his house was routine security. Led by a policeman on a motor scooter, it consisted of three Jeeps filled with South Vietnamese cops toting M-16 rifles, a fourth Jeep loaded with members of the presidential guard and armed with a .50-cal. machine gun, and the Premier's aging black Mercedes limousine. On both flanks, the cavalcade was guarded by plainclothesmen riding Hondas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Assassination Attempt | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...company has begun to introduce stronger coin boxes and armored cables on pay phones. To reduce privacy, some telephone booths are gradually being replaced by open telephone stands in high-risk areas. Last month the company started sending out a "flying squad," whose 102 members patrol by foot, motor scooter, truck and station wagon to track down out-of-order coin phones. It used to take an average of four days to spot a broken phone; now the company claims that the breakdowns are reported in only two days. Still, weeks sometimes elapse before repairs can be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Mother Bell's Migraine | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...complete automobile." Italians dubbed it the "Mickey Mouse," and it proved to be for them what Ford's Tin Lizzie had been to Americans after World War I. At a price of less than $1,000, the car was an easy step up from the motor scooter; four passengers could squeeze into it-if they inhaled and exhaled in sync. The 500 is still Fiat's bestseller; it and a slightly larger version account for almost half of the cars sold in Italy over the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A SOCIETY TRANSFORMED BY INDUSTRY | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Several reasons are cited for the dilemma. One is cost, for although the original Rolls-Royce price of the basic machine has dropped to motor-scooter range, the expense of maintenance is still skyhigh. Another is under-utilization of machines already in existence. Still another is medical disagreement as to how much skilled professional help is needed to operate the equipment safely. Some say that only a doctor can do it, some would leave much of it to a nurse, while others maintain that the patient can do it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therapy: Healing by Tinkering | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Pausing in Paris to visit his uncle, U.S. Ambassador R. Sargent Shriver, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 14, took an afternoon to try out a motor scooter in a brisk, hair-raising spin through the byways of the Bois de Boulogne. On the next lap of his summer work-vacation, Bobby pushes on to Dar-es-Salaam, on Africa's east coast. From there, Tanzanian game wardens will help him in his study of African wildlife-and Bobby will doubtless work with them in their efforts to conserve the herds of elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wildebeest and antelope that roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 5, 1968 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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