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...down because she was too tall (5 ft. 6½ in.). Switching to the musical theater, Juliet played Princess Samaris in the London production of Kismet. Later, she moved on to an engagement at Paris' La Nouvelle Eve, a nightclub distinguished for its bare dancers, but a motor-scooter accident interfered with her appearance in that particular Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Nicest Yet | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...Broke. In Hamilton, Ont., while demonstrating the safety features of the Go-Scooter in a local shopping center, Vice President Clayton St. Louis of the Hamilton Go-Scooters Association wheeled into a guard rail, fell down a 12-ft. embankment, suffered two broken legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: To Beat or Not to Beat | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...larger volume of passenger traffic than any other type of weekday travel. Six million of them get to work and back home by auto, 450,000 by train, 3,550,000 by bus, subway or rapid transit. Others ingeniously make the trip by airplane, helicopter, bicycle, motor scooter, powerboat and, in the case of one hardy California commuter, by kayak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Those Rush-Hour Blues | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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