Word: towed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Joseph in tow, Meg descends next on a Kansas cow college, where even French is taught with a barnyard accent. Joseph gets blackballed after she tries to bribe a fraternity with a bagful of Popsicles; when he goes out on a date, she chases after him in a police car. His only release from maternal smotheration comes when Meg is mustering new men friends in the hotel...
...there. So was Evangelist Billy Graham, Author John Dos Passes, Banker David Rockefeller, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and onetime Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Luci Baines Johnson, two days before her 17th birthday, had 25 of her teen-age friends in tow...
With the righteous indignation of a Renault-owner boxed in between two Buicks, Fontenele commenced by hiring a fleet of trucks to tow off all illegally parked cars. When police garages were full, offending cars were simply stashed away on isolated streets. No records were kept of what went where. If the car was in a police pound, the owner paid maybe a $4 fine; if it wasn't -shrug. One army captain wailed that it took him three days of searching to find his Volkswagen; other owners found that vandals had followed the tow trucks, stripped their cars...
Colonel Fontenele was only warming up. When he learned that parking violaters were escaping before the tow trucks arrived, he sent his men through downtown Rio to descend on the front tires of illegally parked cars, unscrew the valves-and pffft! "Vandalism," cried Rio papers in shocked unison, quoting eminent jurists' opinions that "Operation Pffft!" was illegal. "This campaign will continue until motorists begin to cooperate with the authorities," answered Fontenele...
...with relish and delight a nostalgic encounter between two Old World celebrities at an international film festival. Leading man is Charlie, a writer rich but long past his prime, an exquisite wit, mildly fond of young men, though he has been married four times. With his latest boy in tow, Charlie encounters an old cinemactress friend; she has a pretty girl companion, and such pairing off as occurs would come as no surprise to Rodgers and Hart. But for a baroque stylist like Stacton, the joke lies in the telling: at its best, Old Acquaintance is studded with aphorisms, lively...