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Well! Next I approached two Cambridge officers. "Know who owns Winthrop Street?" "You been towed?" "Yes." "Harvard!" Well, well!! I grabbed a cab to Fresh Pond Shopping Center ($5) and told the driver to head out back, as per instructions. "You been towed?" he asked. "Yep. You a regular on this route?" "Oh, I've been here before, heh-heh. They do a lot of towing, especially on weekend nights, when out-of-towners come to the Square." Phil's Tows claimed not to know who authorized the job and overcharged me too, according to documents on file with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Towing | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

Other side effects associated with some of the research include drowsiness, lethargy, and dizziness, says Orzack. Every subject must be deemed fit by a psychiatrist to go home, and "we always send them home in a cab," she says. "[Using depressants] is like being really drunk, but without the sickness or the alcohol. It's like you're in a bubble," says one participant...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Donating Your Body for Scientific Research | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...hell with it," you say, climbing into the cab of the four-whell drive Chevy Ram she made you buy, tossing a handful of oats and alfalfa to a U-Haul full of haggard-looking thoroughbreds. "I don't need her. I don't need anybody...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice consul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: How Not to Stage a Kidnaping | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...gave him the money and offered to get him a cab. I said, 'Hey, I'm only doing this part time and I'm getting $4 an hour, so don't kill...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer and Russ Muirhead, S | Title: Munching Past Midnight at the Store 24 | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

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