Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black admissions officer said yesterday that he was beaten and insulted by a Cambridge taxi-cab driver on November 30 when he refused to pay the driver a tunnel...
...hide your sorrows any more." Scandal magazines and newspapers hounded her, and reporters and photographers followed her every movement. One day, to get away from them, friends took her out the back door of a Copenhagen hotel, leaving her for a minute in an alley while they fetched a cab. "I was standing there in the garbage," she remembers, "and I felt it was really symbolic. Something died in me. I resolved it would never be the same again." Even at the worst, however, she was looking at herself in that invisible mirror. "I was crying floods of tears...
...most popular parts of the magazine. Freshmen women in the Yard are posting it on their walls, and most people who buy the parody like it. But Lampoon president S. Eric Rayman '73 freely admits that the thing is a fake. It is apparently a 50-year-old cab driver whose belly is beginning to sag a bit, with Kissinger's head attached to it. No doubt that is what a lot of people, including the Lampoon, would like to think Kissinger looks like...
There may be something of a delay before the plan takes off. The scheduled carriers are preparing to ask the courts to rescind the CAB'S decision. The ruling, they say, violates the law forbidding charter lines to sell tickets to individuals. In addition, the U.S. must negotiate with foreign governments for landing rights covering the new class of service, called Travel Group Charters (TGC). Negotiations with some nations should be relatively smooth and simple. But some governments, including France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, are wary of subjecting their national airlines to further low-priced competition, particularly...
...Over the past decade, charter flights have increased from 10% to 22% of all air traffic across the Atlantic. The scheduled lines have fought back by offering a bewildering variety of excursion packages, and some have resorted to illegal discounting of blocks of tickets to travel agents. Now the CAB is trying to clear up the mess by simply abolishing the affinity rule. Says CAB Chairman Secor Browne: "Low-cost charter availability is taking on the character of a right, which governments are increasingly being expected to protect and promote...