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...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...
...also had ideas, introducing such novelties as all-day striptease joints which charged only a 50? admission, "taxi-boys" who offered their services as gigolos to lonely lady tourists. He married Helene de Cressac, a Polish-born stripteaser with managerial and artistic talents, and put her in charge of the staging, costuming and choreography of all his clubs...
...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...
...Tennessee. There upon the striking pilots, backed by $300,000 from ALPA, decided to form their own line as a subsidiary of Valparaiso Aero Service, a charter service in Indiana. They leased five seven-passenger de Havilland Doves. Since Valparaiso already had FAA certification as an air taxi service, Superior did not need a certificate to fly scheduled routes. While the striking pilots do not have the planes to compete with Southern on all routes, they hope to damage Southern by skimming the cream off the busiest routes...