Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Check the Villa. Last month, however, came a tip from Egypt that Zech-Nenntwich had flown to Brussels. Rushing there, Münch flashed the fugitive's picture to taxi drivers at the airport until one cabby remembered taking the German to the border town of Eupen. In Eupen, Münch found another driver who had taken a "German businessman" across the border on a rush trip to Remagen-the town where Zech-Nenntwich owns a villa. Münch and Heggemann boldly rang the villa's doorbell and demanded to see Zech-Nenntwich. In a four...
Willing Waste. What was not to be expected was Tung's real motive for taking the assignment. Last May 26, after only a day on the job, he walked out of the Paguidas-Haidemenos, hailed a taxi, and told the driver: "Quick, the U.S. embassy." Minutes later he became a defector-the second Chinese Communist official ever to seek sanctuary with Americans...
...London Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York...
...mighty New York Yankees, those bankers of baseball, were giving away 20,000 free tickets-and to New York taxi drivers at that. With each pair of ducats went a letter from General Manager Ralph Houlc, 44, telling how the Yanks ("a great New York institution") wanted to "do something for another great New York institution." The Yanks could use some friends: the Na tional League's happy-go-sloppy Mets were outdrawing them at home...
...They taxied not in a taxi, though, but in the Cessna 170 they keep in the backyard hangar. The neighbors find nothing odd about that. They have airplanes in their backyards...