Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...hand in Egypt was William Rademaekers, who had flown down from his usual post in Vienna. He found himself cooped up in Cairo with 150 other Western journalists, all itching to get a look at the frontier. "You can climb into an ancient, wheezing taxi and make it known by various gestures that you want to go 'to the front,' " reports Rademaekers. "Off you go in the general direction of Suez in a billowing cloud of dust, accompanied for three hours by the weakening wail of the horn. In the end, you are usually delivered to a police...
...nation smothered by the blue-silver smog of television Vaughn is a celebrity. No Progressive Labor spokesman could be more appealing to construction workers, taxi cab drivers and unemployed factory hands than the glamorous man from U.N.C.L.E. William Fulbright can't compete with him for the attention of middle class clerks and housewives. He is very much aware of the possibilities created by his star status, and he has chosen to utilize them for the benefit of the anti-war cause. "Everyone doesn't have the podium I have to speak from," he says. "My audiences may come...
These vague speculations gain some credence from a couple of suspicious events that occurred a few days before Jim Thompson disappeared from a friend's home in the highlands. On the way there, the driver of Thompson's taxi was mysteriously switched, whereupon the taxi headed for a garage for repairs. There, Thompson and his traveling companion were asked to take another taxi that already contained two men, but refused to share the ride. Friends figure that this may have been an abortive kidnap attempt. On the day that Thompson disappeared, a caravan of five cars was seen...