Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech sounded fine at home, where Argentines felt an unaccustomed pride in their austere, crisis-ridden and not very popular President. Nor did it hurt when Frondizi showed himself highly human by ducking out of his hotel one evening, taking a taxi over to Broadway and 46th Street. He dropped into a cafeteria, ordered a steak and a beer, then strolled on Broadway, licking an ice-cream cone and rubbernecking like any tourist...
...life in one cluttered rented room in the musty West Berlin apartment of two old women. He was cultivated and witty, the author of innumerable nonsense rhymes, the life of any party; but his favorite haunts were the seedy back-street beer halls (Berliner Kneipen) frequented by taxi drivers, petty criminals and superannuated prostitutes. Though he talked year after year of going off to Italy to visit his friend Artist Werner Gilles on the island of Ischia, he let year after year go by before he could bring himself to apply for a passport. He loved West Berlin with...
...Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...Kiev on July 27, said the Russians, he had parked his Volkswagen in an "inconspicuous spot" and flagged a taxi to take him to a military installation near the city. There he had been seized by security agents and a Soviet army officer, as "with trembling hands the spy aimed his camera and clicked away rapidly." Tucked into a body belt, they found eight rolls of film, road maps and other impedimenta, including some notebooks. Sample entries: "Near city I ate three sandwiches ... At 156 kilometers, it started raining . . . Encountered peasants." These seemingly innocent notations, explained the Russians, were really...
...Mercedes Taxis. Though he has many times "circumnavigated the cauldron," as he describes his swings through Europe, Gunther can still be absurdly misled-and misleading. The fact that almost every taxi in West Berlin is a Mercedes-Benz is presented as a sign of prosperity; in fact, as Germany's only diesel-engined car, the Mercedes is favored by cab owners purely for economy. On West Berlin's city council, Adenauer's Christian Democrats are not "the opposition." as Gunther reports, but in coalition with Willy Brandt's Socialists. Benelux currencies are no more or less...