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...seeds of disaster were evident. Robby Brown, Princeton's 6-9 center, had already missed two shots from inside, and Bradley was getting one try and one try only before the monstrous Michigan front line of Bill Buntin, Oliver Darden, and Larry Tregoning cleared the boards...
Their starting five weighs half a ton; their front line consists of Oliver Darden, Larry Tergoning, and Bill Buntin, all of whom stand 6-5 or better. The little man on Michigan's quintet is George Pomey, a shrimpy 6-4, 195-pounder...
...ambush was as sudden as it was effective. Driver Jim Buntin had just dropped his third fare of the morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate...
...They parked all around me, boxing me in," Buntin recalled later in the awed tones of a lone survivor of Custer's last stand. "There must have been a hundred or more in the square and side streets. Traffic came to a halt. Things got a bit ugly. Then the police arrived and sorted things...
...Tall. Buntin's minicab, and others like it, are pitted against 6,600 time-tested dinosaurs of the London taxi world. What arouses the ire of the traditional cabbies is that minicabs are operating without taxi licenses and thus can ignore the stringent regulations that made a London cab 1) expensive to build and 2) one of the world's ugliest but most comfortable vehicles. Some of the regulations, as laid down in the ancient Metropolitan Carriage Act of 1869: each cab must be 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. long, big enough to seat five persons comfortably, high...