Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gregory, 30, piloted a cab followed by tandem 26-ft. trailers carrying 20 tons of cargo. Neither Gregory nor his partner, Chuck Graves, 42, knew what they were hauling. "Guess we could look, but we usually don't," said Gregory. He complained of a headwind that could add ten hours to the 59 allotted by his company for the Los Angeles run. "It'll knock you down a whole gear," he said. "You get damn tired of pushing all the way to L.A. in ninth...
...diner, sit next to a little old lady and calmly make a meal out of his paper napkin ?complete with salt, pepper and ketchup. He also liked to knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher. It was the kind of desperately funny behavior that was a frustrated child's plea for attention...
...well seek to drop some competing flights that take off at the same times, over the same routes, with mostly empty seats. Pan Am already has cut its West Coast-to-Honolulu flights from 80 a week to 40, and fired 378 men from its flight crews, since the CAB authorized six competing carriers to fly the same route. Last week Pan Am announced that on Sept. 16 it will drop the New York-to-Los Angeles portion of its New York-Honolulu and Sydney...
...July 10, the sons of Robert Kennedy and Eunice Shriver allegedly joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house...
Having been a friend of Mr. Edleman's in college, I can vouch for the fact that he was a professional actor when Nichols cast him and, like so many other thespians (myself included, at one time), drove a cab to make ends meet...