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...become acquainted with a few weeks earlier, the other a Belgian named Marcel Hambursin. The remaining passengers were a convicted Belgian swindler, Charles Sigal, and his wife Yvonne. Using the name of a fictitious firm for a cover, the four had chartered the plane from a London air-taxi company. They were real estate developers, they explained, and wanted to examine some sites in the Mediterranean on which to build new hotels...
...Most taxi drivers in the Square also seem to be disappointed with the rearranged traffic pattern. Some have had to turn away fares because the complicated network of one-way streets makes it almost impossible to get to certain parts of Boston without going miles...
...arrival in Mexico City Langer travelled by taxi to the suburb of Coyoacan. After riding down a respectable road the taxi turned into a deserted, unpaved street, with many rust but no houses. At the end of the street was a villa, protected by walls and heavilyarmed guards. The guards had been notified of Langer's arrival and he was admitted, without too much difficulty, to the simply-furnished villa...
...stern side. Guards, who had often snoozed in overstuffed chairs in the watchtowers, were now perched on high aluminum chairs and provided with M-l carbines and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns in place of puny .22-cal. rifles. Many of the old-timers-moonlighting farmers, bellhops and taxi drivers-were replaced with younger, more competent...
...recording studios these days is inspired by Herb Alpert's Latin-flavored brass sound. Giving credits where credit is due, Nero here presents sparkling and masterful piano solos that nicely complement the sophisticated slurrings of the horns in A Taste of Honey, What Now My Love and Tijuana Taxi. His technique is at its best as he evokes the swirl of a jazz dance in the theme from Zorba the Greek, or lays out a burning, soulful line on The Work Song...