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Normalcy and fear. The danger to Hanoi was scarcely visible. The streets were still chockablock with cyclos (cycle taxis, 14? a ride). Shrimp and snail vendors crouched behind their tiny stalls clacking metal scissors-the noisy symbol of their trade. Almond-skinned girls in straw hats and pajamalike silk costumes strolled hand-in-hand to school, and at midnight there was the customary flood of drunken soldiers and giggling tarts as the taxi-dance joints closed down...
Among the spokes in Murchison's golden wheel today are 23 wholly-owned companies, including three chemical companies, four taxi and bus companies in Texas, and Chicago's Martha Washington candy company. He controls, in addition to American Mail Line, Delhi and Holt, Ohio's Diebold office-equipment company (60%), Chicago's Consumers construction-materials company (85%), a water company in Indianapolis and six Texas banks (including 100% control of Athens First National). Through Delhi, he has a big interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests...
While making the investment decisions and voting the shares, Cabot rarely sees a security. "We only see them," he says, "when a man comes in to give some." Even then, the donor is hustled over to the New England Trust Co.--perhaps by subway or taxi depending upon the size of the gift...
...slacks, gabbled enthusiastically and glared in frosty disdain at the few men present. They pointed with pride to some of the advances gained by their sex since the constitution: divorce, women's suffrage, the acceptance of women in an ever expanding range of jobs (as legislators, police officers, taxi drivers, even judges), increased coeducation, the spread of women's clubs, and a general increased freedom for women to speak their minds...
...photographers: "You'll not take any pictures of me with Miss Gabor." Actress Gabor, making the most of a big emotional scene, quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest. By late next afternoon, their little spat was lost in a welter of cooing. Zsa Zsa, looking wan but well, cantered off with Rubi for a pastoral horseback ride through the burgeoning Bois de Boulogne...