Word: scootering
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...platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops, after he had managed to shake hands with Khrushchev, the man turned out to be no assassin, but a Nigerian student on a round-the-world motor-scooter trip who had only wanted to hand Khrushchev a thank-you letter for his new Soviet visa...
...predates Roman civilization, and is now one of the favorite quests of archaeologists. But authorized diggers frequently find that robbers have got there first. And even with the new watch, the thefts continued. One enterprising youth rode up to a grave with his girl on a motor scooter for a "picnic," rode off with 13 objects worth...
Beards are fun, but they itch. An example of a less personal possession with an enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...
Pippin travels incognito (on a motor scooter) among his subjects and decides that what France most needs is an F.D.R.-style New Deal, a kind of People's Monarchy. To a stunned constitutional convention met to draw up a Code Pippin, he lays down what he wants to be the law. beginning with the maddeningly un-French notion of everyone paying his taxes. Before the reader can say "Ca ira," the mob is in the streets clamoring for the Fifth Republic, and what happens to King Pippin after that is best left for Author Steinbeck to tell...
...Senator Matthew Neely, whose fifth term runs until 1961, bedding in a hospital near Washington (for an estimated three more months) with a cracked hip; peppery Tennistar (and 1950 U.S. singles champion) Art Larsen, 31, in Castro Valley, Calif., partially paralyzed and blind in one eye after a motor scooter accident last month. (Larsen's tennis colleagues announced last week that a Manhattan benefit tournament will be staged next month to help Larsen meet his $100-a-day medical bills.) Meanwhile, another tennistar, World Champion Pro Poncho Gonzales, 28, visiting in Australia, took his ailing right hand...