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TESTING: HOW QUICK IS YOUR EYE? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A chance to compare powers of observation with airline pilots, Marine Corps squad leaders, artists, scientists and taxi drivers...
Charity throws the stalest book in the house at the house, the story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
Last Oct. 29, Ben Barka arrived in Paris for a lunch at the famed Brasserie Lipp. He had no sooner alighted from his taxi on the Boulevard St. Germain than he was met by an S.D.E.C.E. agent and two French policemen acting for the Moroccans. They bundled him into a police Peugeot, and took him to a villa in suburban Fontenay-le-Vicomte. It has since been established that Oufkir, accompanied by the head of the Moroccan secret police, flew from Rabat to Paris next day. Whether by coincidence or not, Ben Barka was never seen again...
...because more self-consciously definitive-was Ted Sorensen's Kennedy. But for every excellent Kennedy book, there were at least seven sloppily sentimental ones, and the surfeit went so far that Monocle magazine's Victor Navasky struck home with his satirical suggestion for a brand-new title: "Taxi to Greatness, the story of the cab driver who drove young John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier to the movies on their first date...
...heliport that opened for business last week atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building, 59 stories in the air. From that pad, New York Airways will whisk travelers from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport in only seven minutes (v. the 45-minute taxi trip) for $7. Passengers can check their luggage at Pan Am's mezzanine-level counter, never have to bother with it again until they land in London or Bombay...