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...passively pushed around and ended up on line. Then two cops came in and I thought to myself the jig's up, before I get my doughnut they'll realize where I'm from and put me in a straight jacket and with a blaze of lights and sirens whisk me back to O-2. But miraculously they didn't even speak to me, though I was sure that they and everyone else in the place was staring at me when I wasn't looking: I felt like a fugitive, so tremendously different and apart from everyone else. With great...
KANSAS CITY, MO.--June 10--Ozark Airlines today began preparations for a special flight which will whisk former President Harry S Truman to Boston to receive his long-awaited honorary degree from Harvard University...
...something -they might regret losing: an echo of empire. An amorphous grouping of white and yellow, black and brown, it is well-nigh unequaled for sheer curiosity and panoply. There in London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker droned on. There, too, were Malawi's Hastings Banda, waving...
...operation. Invented by Rumanian-born Engineer Mihai Alimanestianu and built by Otis Elevator, it is designed to make the most of parking-space profits, which range from $500 to $2,000 a year per car space, depending on location. Speed-Park uses a computer-controlled moving elevator platform to whisk a car to one of eight levels, where hydraulic machinery shovels the auto into an empty stall. Total time for the cycle: 30 seconds. The system is by no means inexpensive; a one-elevator setup costs about $1,000,000, but Otis claims that it costs no more to maintain...
...aides in instant touch with practically every delegate. Like the other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well as several speedboats-"Nixon's Navy" -that will dock in Indian Creek across from the hall to whisk VIPs to their hotels without fighting traffic on main-stem Collins Avenue...