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Drivers for Cambridge's biggest cab company, Yellow Cab, yesterday threatened "drastic action"--possibly a strike--unless the city intervenes and forces the company owner to pay for the cab drivers' gasoline...
...taxi drivers, who say their gross earnings have decreased 10 per cent since Yellow Cab owner Arthur Goldberg forced them to begin paying for their own gas a week ago, will meet with the Cambridge City Council in a special hearing Monday evening, Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announced last night...
...years in the bureau, Hillenbrand, previously a foreign correspondent, has reported many agriculture stories and developed a fondness for the men who farm. "They are some of the few Americans who really put the country ahead of making a buck," he says. "Many support the embargo; though, like Manhattan cab drivers, they never stop complaining about their...
...drivers was almost killed when the plastic bag over his head started to suffocate him before he could escape. So company bosses said they would put the Texaco logo in letters 17 in. high on its trucks, to replace the small sign on the door of the cab, which was not very noticeable from 50 ft. away. They also promised to think about some other steps like beefing up security and changing the pattern of deliveries, although nobody will start to ride shotgun...
...left when the boy was three, Walter Williams jokes that he never really broke out of the Philadelphia slums. As a kid, he drifted. He determined to make something of himself only when he was leaving the Army. Married, broke and 25, Williams drove a Yellow Cab, saved some money, went to California and invested the next ten years in study. "When I first attempted the written exam for a Ph.D. in economics at U.C.L.A., 17 people took it, and 15 flunked. I was among the 15." Williams earned his doctorate the second time around. Says...