Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, there was only one man in this University who could walk into a crowd of demonstrators and tell a State Department official, "On the authority of the President of this University, I command you to get out of that cab...
...hours after Rivera's murder, Mayor John Lindsay announced a plan-already being tested in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles-to make New York taxis less tempting targets for holdup men. Sturdy, locked cashboxes will be welded to the frames of New York's 11,700 cabs. All fares will be promptly deposited in the boxes, which the drivers cannot unlock. There the money will remain until the boxes are opened at the taxi garage. Drivers will be encouraged to carry only about $5 in change and cab riders educated to have exact-or near-exact -amounts...
Protected Profits. There is evidence that the lockbox works. In Oakland, where all Yellow Cabs have the boxes, robberies are off by 25%. In Los Angeles, where 758 Yellow Cabs were equipped with strongboxes in July, stickups have dropped by 50%. Philadelphia's Yellow Cab Co. will soon test the system...
...from an important fringe benefit of their jobs: conversation with passengers. Some riders, however, might appreciate the blessed and unusual quiet. Other experiments have had equally spotty success. More than 5,000 New York policemen now hold hack licenses and moonlight as cabbies. In addition, cops drive decoy cabs, and squad cars often follow taxis into high-crime areas. In some cities, a few cabs are equipped with police radios. Despite these measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis are just an easy mark." So is the taxi...
...Gregory, pretty waitresses are the most important thing about a truck stop. "It means a lot to come into a place where you're recognized and know the girls," he says. It is a relief from the forced comradeship of the cab. Drivers usually work with the same partner for six months, which can make for trouble. Says Paul Hadaway, a vice president of Navajo Freight Lines: "Rifts between drivers often start over questions of hygiene in the cab and build to criticism of driving technique. When you're in the cab with that fellow for weeks...