Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pudding hustled Miss Fonda and her press agent, Peggy Walters, into a waiting black Cadillac limousine; they were already too late for Miss Fonda's tour of the Loeb, and they didn't want to miss lunch. One airline passenger said to a taxi driver, "Miss Fonda? Where'd she go?" and the cabbie answered, "She just went out the door with some kids...
...changed ("I became interested in men when I was 13"). During her freshman year at Vassar, Brooke met Michael Thomas, a Yale sophomore whom she "loathed on sight." He wooed her persistently by effective intellectual maneuvers-"He'd sit as far away as possible from me in the taxi and read his term paper on Botticelli." In the summer of 1956, Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished...
...jobs with the Symphony of the Air, the American Ballet Theater, the New York City Center. Married to Mezzo-Soprano Gloria Lane (TIME, March 28), he is still astounded at being so much in demand for guest appearances. "A few years ago, if I wanted expense money for a taxi, I had to fight for it. Now they...
...protest at the government's economic austerity program. The big steel plants around Liegè, Mons and Charleroi remained dark and empty. In the southern Walloon country, angry strikers set up roadblocks when the gendarmes were not around, hurled four-pronged nails on the roads to discourage profiteering taxi drivers...
...proceeds to plan an assault on the gang's first objective, a fur shop. Naturally, everything that can possibly go wrong goes as wrong as possible, but somehow the charitable criminals manage to creak home with half their haul-the other half is absentmindedly left in a taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success, the mink mob is soon established as the despair of Scotland Yard and the hope of innumerable philanthropies-including the police orphanage. At the fade, four suspicious characters, dressed in the Renaissance knickers worn by guards in the Tower of London...