Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zephyr's cab, Engineer Ray Flaar, 61, shouts above the wild clatter of the rails: "I've made this run so many times I know every crosstie and humpback. But I'll tell you, there is always something new to see." A red pickup truck whirls out of a dusty side road, races the train for a few miles and then, pulling ahead, suddenly swerves over a crossing just 50 yards ahead. "Come fall," Flaar shouts, "when everybody is going down to the grain elevators, you get lots of guys racing you to a crossing." He tugs...
...subject of this week's Business cover story is one on which TIME's readers are all thoroughly knowledgeable and even expert: inefficiency. Practically everyone has his own list of horror stories about malfunctioning equipment, poor repairmanship, delays at airports, ill-natured salespeople and savage cab drivers. TIME's editors and correspondents are not only subject to this malaise but, being in the business of communications, are particularly vulnerable to it. In reporting and writing this week's cover, the staff encountered almost supernatural attempts to jam, delay and even halt its efforts...
...know him but pick his name out of the Yellow Pages when they are desperate for his services. In earlier times, in a small town, people had to build up a clientele, so good will mattered. Even today, city dwellers who visit smaller towns are surprised to find smiling cab drivers and hustling waiters...
...Vort '69 is a graduate of Exeter and Harvard College. For the past half-year, he has been living in Cambridge, doing odd jobs to pay his rent and using what he has left of a small inheritance for spending money. Last month, he also drove a Checker cab...