Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like his younger brother John (sometime Governor of Connecticut, now Ambassador to Spain), "Cab" Lodge followed the beaten Brahmin path to Harvard. By taking extra courses, he finished up in three years. "I disliked the academic atmosphere," he says. "I wanted to get going." He graduated cum laude despite the speedup, explains that he did it the easy way, by majoring in Romance languages, taking advantage of the fluent French he learned at schools he attended in Paris...
Rebels by Phone. British Newsmen Richard Beeston of the London News Chronicle and John Mossman of the London Daily Herald hung their cab with pictures of Nasser to disarm Iraqi border guards, drove through 130° heat from Damascus to Baghdad. (From the Herald's foreign desk to Mossman came the wry plea: "For God's sake, put up the meter flag!") TIME-LIFE'S Correspondent Robert Morse and Photographer Larry Burrows made it along the same route, found Baghdad street peddlers doing a brisk trade hawking pictures of the mutilated bodies of Premier Nuri asSaid...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
Ottawans had difficulty picking out the Secret Service operatives around the President. But the security problem managed to generate a first-class flap when an Ottawa cab driver reported that two men, one of them carrying what could have been a rifle case, had left his cab near the golf course where Ike was playing a round with three companions. Notified of the cab driver's suspicions, Ike calmly finished his round (score: 89) while a detail of Mounties beat the surrounding bushes in a vain search for the suspicious strangers...
Despite their success, most penny-whistlers still find the going rough. Whistle Virtuoso Fred Maphisa thinks up his tunes while driving a cab; Spokes ("King of the Pennywhistlers") Mashiyani used to make his living as a domestic servant. But young "Special" Mabaso, who has just turned out a new hit called Serope Sa Ngwanyana (Girls' Thighs), is optimistic. Says he: "We are professionals now. From now on we are not going to play so much in the streets...