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...first political kidnaping of 1971 was pulled off one morning last week with a panache born of practice. As a street vendor in the Old City of Montevideo reached into the pile of lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...
Mark of Zorro. Plunkett is happy to have the opportunity to graduate. His late father, afflicted with progressive blindness, was a news vendor who had to support his sightless wife along with Jim and two older daughters. Raised in San Jose, Calif., Plunkett chose for his childhood hero Zorro, the Spanish Robin Hood. (Plunkett says that he is 90% Mexican; an Irish-German great-grandfather passed on the Anglo surname.) He became seriously interested in football at the age of 14, when he grew to 5 ft. 11 in. and 150 Ibs., an advantage that helped him star in basketball...
...Vendor Thomas George, 44, was accustomed to sell such sweet delights at a neighborhood park in The Bronx. But the New York City police suspected him of peddling an illegal variation of the dreamsicle. Last week a patrolman staked out George's truck and arrested him for allegedly selling heroin to a teen-aged customer. Police claimed that the Good Humor Man also had 81 horse-race betting tickets and eight more packets of heroin in his truck. Who is left whom little children can trust...
Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
...followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair of Petit's dancers. Finally, following a flurry of furs, sequins and extravagant nudes, the inimitable Zizi appears. Her ink black hair is clipped into a skull cap, and her raspy, pushcart-vendor voice keeps the audience in thrall for two solid hours...