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...Claude has already come a long way from humble beginnings. Conroy's novel first shows the protagonist as a young boy in the early 1940s spending long hours alone in a basement apartment near Manhattan's Third Avenue El while his mother, the rawboned, boilermaker-swigging Emma, drives a cab. Fortunately for Claude, the cramped living quarters contains an old 66- key nightclub piano, a memento from Emma's past life on the vaudeville circuit. The boy begins plinking away and eventually seeks advice from Aaron Weisfeld, the owner of a nearby music-supply store...
...west side of the Hudson River, three locomotives lug 63 flatbed freight cars -- almost a mile of Conrail train for United Parcel and the U.S. Postal Service, due in California in 72 hours. Engineer Jim Metzger, 42, flicks his eyes like beacons from digital screens inside his cab to the roadbed and back -- right hand on the throttle controlling 11,400 horses, left hand on the three-tone whistle, two longs, a short and a long at every crossing. Past suburban backyards and friendly waves, through the West Point tunnel, rolling from 35 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h. beneath the hulking...
...Long Island's Southern State Parkway. The officers tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver refused to stop. The ensuing chase ended 15 minutes later when Rifkin, 34, obliged his pursuers by crashing into a utility pole. The troopers opened the door. They removed him from the cab. They cuffed him. And then somebody noticed the odor coming from beneath the tarpaulin in back...
There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...Cheap Love," the longest brothel in the world, a smorgasbord of lust. Travelers can pause at rest stops, munch on french fries and sausages and, for just $30, pick up a girl -- maybe one as young as 15 -- for half an hour in the bushes or in a truck cab or shabby motel. For the men, the encounters are alluring, if seedy, interludes at a bargain price...