Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stockly came to TIME with the background of a pilot, a cab driver and a steel -mill -worker -turned -reporter who was fired by a newspaper editor with the warning: "You're a fine legman, but you'll never be a good writer as long as you live...
...intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke some words in Italian. 'You an Italian boy?' the driver asked, and he said he was from north of Venice . . . 'Then what are you doing on Sutton Place South?' 'Doin' good,' said...
...Orient Express in Vienna. There was no one to meet him because nobody expected him; he was simply another American doctor beating a path to Vienna to learn something of what can again be learned in the onetime capital of European medical science. Dr. Appleby took a cab to the newly opened clubrooms of the American Medical Society of Vienna. Next morning, after a minimum of red tape, he stood at the side of one of Vienna's leading surgeons during a difficult heart operation...
...gates of Canada's Chalk River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past, radiation detection devices went wildly off scale. Inside the canvas was a 2½-ton aluminum tank, probably the most troublesome radioactive object that man has ever handled...
...tank had been properly taken care cf. With an announcer barking orders over a public-address system, men in gas masks and protective clothing started the ticklish operation of jockeying the dangerous tank out of the reactor's concrete shield. The crane that lifted it had a shielded cab to protect its operator. In 30 minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot and covered with sand. Not until last week, with the tank safely in its grave, did the scientists reveal that its radioactivity was half as strong as that...