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...Marcello Mastroianni strode through the bustle splendidly faking directorial omniscience. And when Fellini wasn't looking, he sneaked off-perhaps as once happened on another film-to a nearby phone booth to go to sleep in it standing...
...primary day, symbolically, Speaker John McCormack attracted almost no attention when he returned to Massachusetts to vote. But President Kennedy and Jackie drew an excited audience when they helicoptered in from Newport. (Jackie got confused in the booth, had to call on the President for some husbandly assistance with the voting machine.) That night, the end came with merciful speed at 8:32, when an aide handed a slip of paper to Teddy Kennedy's brother-in-law, Steve Smith. "Here's where Knocko lives." he said. It was South Boston's Ward 7. Precinct 5. Knocko...
...cannot afford Sun City can always go to St. Petersburg, where they can sit on pastel-colored benches in the sun and stare into space, or tell each other what they did yesterday. In St. Pete, they can have their blood pressure taken for 35? at a street-corner booth, or play shuffleboard on 107 courts. They can listen to free band concerts almost any day in the year, or dance most evenings for a quarter, or "Eat Like a King for $1.60"−or less...
...mystery guest was ensconced in his isolation booth, and the panelists on NBC's noonday quiz show Your First Impression tried to guess his identity from his spur-of-the-moment responses to a series of unfinished questions...
...Francisco Chronicle reported that two-thirds of the ballots were opposed to all-number dialing. Said Hayakawa: "These people are systematically trying to destroy the use of memory. They tell you to 'write it down,' not memorize it. Try writing a telephone number down in a dark booth while groping for a pencil, searching in an obsolete phone book and gasping for breath. And all this in the name of efficiency ! Engineers have a terrible intellectual weakness. 'If it fits the machine,' they say, 'then it ought to fit people.' This is something that...