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Last week police found him dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the cab of a pickup truck in Emigration Canyon, a few miles east of the city. Rachel took the news of his suicide calmly, telling officers that her husband was ready for life in the next world, and returned to the suite...
There, up from a Washington suburb sporting an ice cream suit fit for Cab Calloway and a wife who made it known she had met Liz Taylor, was the kid who had been the class's best dancer. There, gowned in lavender and telling of an ended marriage while speaking of her new companion as "my fiance, my roommate, whatever," was the girl who had been head majorette. There, with the conspicuous tan and the bleached hair, baring a leg in a comic chorus-line kick-who could that...
...chairman is fairly well known, but, says Senate Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire, "I bet only half a dozen members of Congress could tell the names of all the members of the board, and most people think that Ml is a gun used in World War II." Few Washington cab drivers know the Fed's address on Constitution Avenue...
...newspaper, you decide, is too depressing. Besides, it's getting late, so you trash it, fight off the little chill that runs up your spine as you sense the cold stares that follow your back across the lobby, and head out into the street to look for a cab. There are none, of course--South Jamaica, despite the presence of the railroad station, is not a smart place to cruise around looking for fares--so you prop yourself, more than a bit self-consciously, against the wall of the Rip-Off Bar and Grille, and wait...
...CAB, MISTER?" abroad black face inquires, and your eyes follow his extended hand to a junkyard-special '67 Chevy that is obviously suffering in the heat. Whatever color it may have been originally, time has faded it to a sort of nondescript grey. You start to move, then remember--it's not yellow, it has no medallion form the Taxi Commission, it's a gypsie cab. A hundred newspaper headlines fire the peculiar sort of panic that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot...