Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...
...administration presses court cases against officials who acquire "unexplained wealth." More important. Macapagal has raised the salaries of government workers and the armed forces. With his usual public-relations gift, he drives a Chevrolet and issues palace breakfast invitations to honest taxi drivers who return lost wallets...
...Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin Mme. Nhu coldly: "The question is not finding work for them, but starving them into more useful jobs...
Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...
Nightclubbing was made easy by 4,000 waitresses, hostesses and taxi dancers (previously outlawed), who had just finished a cram course in English and etiquette (sample instruction: don't order drinks without the customer...