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Shelton had also tried unsuccessfully to organize local taxi cab drivers and drove a cab part-time himself

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cause Is Still Uncertain In Law Student's Death | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...also lauded Shelton for balancing his labor activism and his daily work as a cab driver with his academic work as an undergraduate: "He was the kind of person who worked 80 or 90 hours a week...I think he handled [Law School pressure] with more aplomb because he was brilliant...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Law Student Found Dead In Apartment | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...forced from the ring in 1958 when the New York State athletic commission said he had suffered brain damage. Friends claimed Jackson had been exploited financially during his ring career, and he spent many of the remaining years of his life shining shoes and driving a cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Museum of Modern Art held a design competition for a highly maneuverable taxi that people could get in and out of easily. Giugiaro submitted a plan for a compact, five-passenger Alfa Romeo with sliding doors wide enough to admit a wheelchair. It cost less than the average American cab, and at the time everyone thought it was a great idea. It still is, but unfortunately, no one in the U.S. wants to manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Creation, Italian-Style | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...kibbutz. There is a hole in the wall, like a bite mark, where they were hit. It is the only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full of plums and avocados...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: What Good Is This Revenge? | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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