Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They eventually arrived at New York but (surprise!) there were no buses waiting to take the team to the hotel. So Donovan took a cab and went completely around the airport, in an attempt to find the Force Bus Line. He finally led the buses to the team, loaded everybody, checked the roll and found out one player, Paul Masaracchio, missing. The managers then scoured the airport, finally found Paul upstairs in the restroom and brought him down...
...Mullin cheerfully admits that "I stole from everybody." But his familiar caricatures were strictly his own inventions. The Brooklyn Bum was born one afternoon in the 1930s after the downtrodden Dodgers dropped yet another game at Ebbets Field. A cab driver carrying Mullin back to Manhattan asked him, "How'd our Bums do today?" The designation seemed brilliantly appropriate, and the woebegone tramp made his debut in the paper next day. Mullin affectionately dubbed the Dodgers Bums, and the sobriquet stuck. Before long, other cartoonists were forced to devise their own bums to denote the Dodgers...
...request to the CAB proposed the air fare change only until July 31, 1971, but Eastern Airlines officials said that they would know long before that if the change would be permanent...
There is even a move afoot among the lines to charge first-class passengers for drinks. And the airlines have asked permission from the CAB to raise their fares by 10%. Higher fares may discourage even more people from flying, but the industry is in such straits that permission will probably be granted...
...remember it was one of those very snowy Sunday nights. I got into a cab and practically rousted the poor guy out of bed to announce that, if he was willing, we'd like him to be the next President of Harvard," Burr said, flashing a broad grin...