Word: towing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With some 30 newsmen and photographers in tow, Zsa Zsa, got up in a man-killing black ensemble, glided into a flossy Montparnasse bistro and cornered her pomaded prey. As the cameras converged on him, Rubirosa snarled at the photographers: "You'll not take any pictures of me with Miss Gabor." Actress Gabor, making the most of a big emotional scene, quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest...
...schoolteacher with a twelve-year-old boy in tow appeared last week at the University of Vienna's Psychiatric Clinic and told its chief. Dr. Hans Hoff: "If you don't take this child. I'm going to quit my job. He has threatened suicide, and I refuse to take the responsibility.'' Dr. Hoff agreed to treat the youngster and his problems, but he had charge of only one of many cases that have recently alarmed Vienna's teachers, public and press. In four months, 16 children aged 9 to 16 have tried...
Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...
Especially difficult is the "short-short" story or play. Shopping and Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...
Because of the great inducement to take advantage of a Junior year away, some precautions are necessary to permit the departure of only capable, mature students. An applicant should have a Group Three or better standing for his first tow years, and meet the proposal's requirement of a D language course. Although the program includes an orientation period, no student should leave without the full confidence of his department. With these safeguards the Faculty can pass the Junior year abroad plan and insure a profitable addition to the curricula...