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...Chou told his colleagues that he was going to take an early morning stroll. He walked slowly out of the Palace Hotel, picked up speed as he left the lobby, then ran into the middle of the street, where he stuck out both arms and desperately flagged a cruising taxi...
...Finally Chou asked to be taken to the embassy of Red China's newer enemy-the Soviet Union. That happened to be just around the corner. Chou excitedly jumped out, found the front gate locked, and scrambled over the seven-foot concrete wall-leaving behind a startled, unpaid taxi driver. Inside the embassy the Russians were equally surprised. Peking was a "terrible place," Chou said. He had decided to escape from Red China because of the "suffocating atmosphere" of Communism. He was willing to go to Russia, but Nationalist China was really his preference. Somewhat disappointed over their guest...
...vision ary who talks constantly about the way-out future, yet he is also an intensely practical man who has made realities out of many of his early dreams. Immensely wealthy and forever faced with decisions about spending millions, he is nonetheless a penny pincher who makes waiters and taxi drivers scowl at his meager tips, is indifferent to carrying cash (his secretary presses pocket money on him just before he goes on every trip) and always takes a single room rather than a suite when he is staying in a hotel. He is often shy and inarticulate among strangers...
Last week, in the biggest mass escape yet, 91 more Cubans-taxi drivers, doctors, government employees, house wives and children - were resting safely in Mexico after a harrowing four-day journey across the Caribbean...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...