Word: toot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos just charge. Gazelles, zebras and wildebeests are timorous but hardheaded: if a car gets between them and their water hole, adieu auto! As for the little creatures-like 150-lb. wart hogs-a driver can only keep his fingers crossed. "They're impossible to see until you hit them," explained TIME Stringer Henry...
...palms, and a publicity agent thrown in to make weight. But John Mills, 50, a wartime Polish commando, doesn't really need him: as soon as he bought Manhattan's El Morocco (from Edwin Perona, son of the late founder), dozens of friends dropped by for a toot, from venturesome capitalists like Sherman Fairchild to Cinemactress Merle Oberon. After all, Mills already runs a triple-barreled London establishment (casino, nightclub, restaurant) that is loaded with big game, including Prince Philip and the Sheik of Kuwait. Though Mills says "I wouldn't dare" change the zebra...
...Francisco's Olympic Club and the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda, retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during...
...chairman and chief executive officer. Taciturn, Massachusetts-born Lee Waterman fits easily into the company-town atmosphere of Corning, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and two children. An accomplished musician, he played the French horn in the Corning Philharmonic until recently, still continues on Sunday afternoons to toot with four neighbors in a Dixieland jazz combo called "the Fifth Street Five...
...going to try moving the whole show down to Miami, "so I can sit around in the sun and play golf while working. Come next fall, we'll rent a boat, load the whole crew aboard and sail out of New York for Florida, full toot." Will his booze-'em buddy, Restaurateur Toots Shor, make the trip? "Why, certainly," expanded The Great One. "He'll probably be the boat...