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...others did come, bringing flowers. They arrived from Moscow by taxi and private car; they came by footpath through the woods or across the open fields from the suburban railroad station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...
Blue Network. In Lithgow, Australia. taxi drivers agreed to watch their language after some of their two-way radio communications were accidentally 'broadcast over the loudspeaker in Our Lady of Fatima Church...
Experience warns Innocence what to expect from the villain, but Innocence of course gets left with the hole in every doughnut and blithely keeps on buying Brooklyn Bridge until all his cash and even his saxophone are gone. The taxi dancer, who by this time is in love with the twerp, wants to put him back in the music business, but how can the poor girl make $200 to buy her jazzbo a new set of tubes? In New York, says Scriptwriter Kanin grimly, there is only one way a poor girl can make that kind of money. Will...
...most pawed over in the U.S. A precursor of the future at other colleges across the U.S., this year's Ivy League race was the fiercest of all time. It reached such a pitch that one Manhattan executive, overhearing two matrons as they were getting out of a taxi, swears that he heard one say: "Of course I'd sleep with him if I thought it would get Billy into Yale...
Argentina has the stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some...