Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prominent Egyptians who had traveled with Sadat to Jerusalem last November, Sebai had been condemned as a traitor by Arab rejectionists. The moment came unexpectedly. Spotting Sebai in the hotel lobby, the Palestinians quickly checked out of their room, paid a bill of $608 in cash and ordered a cab. Then they approached Sebai at the hotel newsstand and squeezed off three pistol shots, which struck him in the head...
...Yellow Cab of Denver hands out free charts to interested employees and gives drivers a day off during triple-criticals. An Exxon chemical plant at Baytown, Texas, sends out safety reminders to its 900 employees on triple-critical days. Says a spokesman: "Frankly, I don't know if there's any truth to the biorhythm theory, but we think the program will promote safety awareness." Biorhythm proponents say that hundreds of companies use the charts, but an investigation by National Safety News found that the claim "appears to be widely exaggerated...
Unlike a lot of Irish-Americans, though, O'Neill is fond of lending support in a big way--by raising money from all the paunchy middle-class accountants and cab drivers who are convinced that a donation to "The Cause" will buy them an ounce or two of secondhand glory. It's not quite like selling indulgences, as the priests were fond of doing in the good old days, but it's close enough. And that makes it tougher for O'Neill to back out of the deal when he realizes where all that money is going...
...wake of last week's snowstorm within the next month or so. That ought to be good news for fans of such groups as Edgar Winter, The Fugs, Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, Benny, Greene and Rickles, all of which have been stranded out at Logan waiting for a cab that will take them to the Music Hall. I placed a call there (put?) yesterday afternoon, and the impressario on duty assured me that as soon as the groups are allowed into the beleaguered city, they will stage a marathon, 48-hour "Easy Listening" festival which will be broadcast simultaneously...
...being pushed by the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Alfred Kahn, a former Cornell economics professor, who has long criticized the wastefulness and rigidity of regulatory agencies. Since becoming chairman last June, he has told airline chiefs that he would welcome applications for innovative fare cuts, and the CAB in effect has been pursuing a course of deregulation by approving just about any low-budget plan that it gets...