Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. As Toulouse-Lautrec memorialized the cancan girls of Pans, Director Bob Fosse celebrates the taxi dancers of New York with stylish staging and sophisticated choreography. Owen Verdon is a terpsichorean tornado as a gal who has a lot of love to give-if she could only find a taker...
...driving from one country to another in a day, European tourists are invariably overwhelmed by the vastness of the U.S. Not long ago a Frenchman who wanted to see Yellowstone took the first plane he could get to Wyoming. It landed at Cheyenne. He got out and grabbed a taxi to go to the park, only to find he was still 485 miles away. Nearly half of all incoming tourists land in New York, and Niagara is often the farthest point west they and their budgets reach...
...Kennedy, the local police were only too happy to let a helicopter plop down on the public beach by his ocean-front home and whisk him off. Pat has divorced him now, and everything's changed. "Peter who?" asked the captain on duty when Los Angeles Air Taxi Service made its 28th routine request for landing permission. Request denied. Lawford ordered the copter to pick him up anyway. Next day, the taxi service's president was slapped with a summons for an unauthorized landing, given a ten-day suspended sentence and a year's probation...
...recent column, Humorist Art I Buchwald claims that he hopped into a London taxi shouting, "Take me to your swingers." To which the cabbie replied: "Oh, you read the TIME magazine cover story too." After Buchwald failed in several attempts to find the swinging city we described (April 15), he went to the Time & Life Building on New Bond Street. There he watched correspondents watusi with comely researchers. "On each desk was a champagne bucket," he writes, "and when they saw me, someone forced a glass into my hand. 'Welcome to swinging London!' a secretary cried. I could...
...plotted with care. Tyonek Business Manager Seraphim Stephan Sr. took a course in tribal-business administration in New Mexico. An outside accounting firm was hired. Carefully investing their fortune, the Indians bought into the Anchorage construction firm that built their new homes, are acquiring an interest in an air-taxi service whose owner flew countless mercy missions for them before prosperity struck...