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...value of currency plummeted, Poles bought almost anything they could find. The reason was simple enough. One man's expendable Chinese rug might turn out to be another man's treasure. The result: a primitive system of barter. A cab driver with a can of oil could trade with a café manager for a pound of coffee. A pair of leather boots would get a sack of potatoes, and a bottle of vodka was pure gold. A Warsaw schoolteacher marveled when one enterprising boy in her class announced that he was willing to trade girl...
Taxi (ABC). A fourth season of high-quality laughs from the Sunshine Cab Co. Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS) and Bosom Buddies (ABC) are the win, place and show-off of current sitcoms...
...Evidently, she not only remembered it but was able to reproduce it for a two-hour CBS special on Eleanor's first years as a U.N. delegate (1945-46). In fact, Londoners were stunned when they saw the actress's commanding figure step out of a period cab at Claridge's Hotel. "Who's that?" asked one Briton. "That's Eleanor Roosevelt," a friend replied. Gasped the first: "I didn't know she was still alive...
...that Glen and Carolyn got out of the same cab at work this morning? And Carolyn was wearing the same dress she had on yesterday?" In gossiping about, say, an office adultery, gossipers will weigh and sift and test the morals involved. Gossip is intimate news (perhaps even false news), but it is also a procession of ethical problems. In gossiping, people try to discover their own attitudes toward such behavior-and the reactions of others. It is also a medium of self-disclosure, a way of dramatizing one's own feelings about someone else's behavior...
...m.p.h., there are no level crossings. Nor are there any new tunnels, since the powerful (6,300 kw.) trains can climb gradients as steep as 3.5% at full speed. Since the train moves too fast for the driver to pick up track-side signals, a console in the cab "reads ahead" and provides digital readouts informing him of the speed he will have to maintain...