Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trouble broke out the next day in predominantly black Roxbury. Black students roamed the streets, stoning cars and throwing rocks at the few white pedestrians. A white cab driver was hospitalized. Police let only black drivers into the area. "We just don't have enough men to protect you," a deputy police superintendent told white reporters. "Don't look left or right. Just keep driving until you get to the suburbs...
...Government, and chiefly the CAB, has discriminated against Pan Am so thoroughly and consistently that at this point, a once strong and healthy carrier has been set up for the knockout punch. The CAB has the choice of partially righting its past wrongs, and justice is obviously long overdue...
Moreover, despite Ford's rejection, the CAB said last week that it is still studying whether the company should get a permanent subsidy. If Pan Am now takes painful cost-cutting steps, particularly by eliminating some lightly traveled routes to Latin America, Africa and Asia, its creditors may be disposed to reduce the $300 million asset limit below which credit would halt. According to Brinegar, the Administration will ask the creditors to be lenient with...
...Richard Dreyfuss is superb in his portrayal of the poor mischievous Jewish boy who sets out to make his mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather and the rest of his humble neighborhood, a Jewish ghetto in Montreal...
Through it all, Pan Am has been forced to fly lightly loaded, fuel-guzzling 707s and 747s to distant places mandated by its CAB certificates, while at the same time competing with some 30 state-owned foreign carriers in a vastly overserved transatlantic market. In 1972, for example, those 30 airlines competed for 8.4 million passengers while only three carriers competed for the 1.9 million passengers in the New York-Los Angeles-San Francisco market. The line has been forced, too, into paying exorbitant landing fees ($4,200 in Sydney for a 747, v. $178 in Los Angeles) that currently...